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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Bibby Stockholm: Home Office breaks rules trying to put disabled asylum seekers and torture victims on barge

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Disabled asylum seekers, torture victims and migrants who have suffered “traumatic experiences at sea” are among those that the Home Office has attempted to put on board the Bibby Stockholm – in violation of its own rules.

The Independent understands that a man who is blind in one eye, another partially-sighted person, and migrants with phobias of water were issued with transfer orders that were successfully challenged by lawyers.

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