Asylum seekers have been warned they have until the end of today to board the Bibby Stockholm barge or face homelessness They have also been told not to expect alternative accommodation, in the letter seen by theipaper AlannahFrancis1 reports
“If you do not travel tomorrow, on 8 August 2023, arrangements for ceasing the support that you are receiving from the Home Office may commence.”
On Monday, Care4Calais said none of the asylum seekers it is supporting boarded the barge “as legal representatives have had their transfers cancelled”. Steve Smith, the refugee charity’s chief executive, said: “Amongst our clients are people who are disabled, who have survived torture and modern slavery and who have had traumatic experiences at sea. To house any human being in a ‘quasi floating prison’ like the Bibby Stockholm is inhumane. To try and do so with this group of people is unbelievably cruel. Even just receiving the notices is causing them a great deal of anxiety.
“Human beings should be housed in communities, not barges. The Government could just get on with processing people’s asylum claims, instead they are playing to a gallery that seems to thrive on human suffering. We will continue supporting people to challenge their decision.”fire safety concernsThe group, all believed to be adult men aged between 18 and 65, were transported to the vessel via bus amid a heavy police presence in the area.
Cheryl Avery, the director of asylum accommodation at the Home Office, said the Government plans to increase the number of people housed on barge to 500.not ready to safely house that many peopleA Syrian Kurd, who is one of the asylum seekers mounting legal challenges against their removal to the Bibby Stockholm, toldHoshyar, not his real name, accused the Government of “neglecting our human existence”.
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