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Housing asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm barge is discriminatory, Home Office finds

The department’s equality impact assessment found keeping people on the barge breaks the 2010 Equality Act on the grounds of sex and age

The Independent UK

After a painful breakup, I dreaded returning to Sweden. Then came a friend’s quiet act of kindness

Memories of life with my ex-boyfriend followed me around Stockholm. But day by day, it became easier, says writer Imogen West-Knights

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm policy is discriminatory, Home Office report finds

Assessment says policy is ‘directly discriminating in relation to age [and] sex’ and says changes may have to be made

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‘Nobody has told us anything’: Bibby Stockholm residents prepare for ‘boring’ Christmas

Asylum seekers living on the vessel moored in Portland, Dorset say they expect another ‘boring’ day on the ‘floating prison’

The Guardian - UK

Coroner asks Home Office for statement on man’s death on Bibby Stockholm

Coroner gives department six weeks to respond as inquest opens into death of Leonard Farruku on barge

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm: Albanian asylum seeker died from ‘compression of the neck’

Leonard Farruku was found unresponsive aboard the accommodation vessel at Portland Port.

Evening Standard

Bibby Stockholm Barge Suicide Victim Identified As Albanian National

Asylum seekers are speaking out against the Bibby Stockholm Barge after a series of suicides, revealing that "the boat is like a prison".

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Inquest to be held into death of asylum seeker on board Bibby Stockholm

AN inquest is to be opened into the death of an asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge.

The National (Scotland)

Inquest to be held into death of asylum seeker who died on board Bibby Stockholm

Dorset Police confirmed that a man had died aboard the accommodation vessel, based at Portland Port, on December 12

Evening Standard

Vintage Ikea furnishings fetch £32,000 at auction in Stockholm

Furniture and homewares from the 1950s to 90s are coming to be recognised as collectors’ items

The Guardian - UK

At Stockholm Auction, Vintage Ikea Goes High-end

At a chic Stockholm auction house, 122 carefully-curated items with unusual provenance went under the hammer on Monday evening: vintage furnishings from flatpack furniture retailer Ikea was sold for a total of 37,000 euros ($40,000).

International Business Times

Appeal Verdict Due In Ex-Iran Official's Trial In Sweden

A Swedish appeals court will announce on Tuesday its verdict in the trial of a former Iranian prison official handed a life sentence in a lower court for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents.

International Business Times

Man who died on Bibby Stockholm named as 27-year-old from Albania

AN asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge has been identified as a 27-year-old man from Albania.

The National (Scotland)

Albanian asylum seeker who died on Bibby Stockholm treated ‘like an animal’, says sister

Body of Leonard Farruku, 27, discovered on board barge last week

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The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm asylum seeker who died in suspected suicide is named

Other refugees onboard say Albanian national Leonard Farruku appeared to be in distress before he died

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm barge must be closed immediately

Letter: The barge is no place to accommodate people who have fled violence, persecution and torture, say campaigners and MPs

The Guardian - UK

More than 60 charities demand closure of Bibby Stockholm barge

MPs and charities say asylum seekers paying ‘appalling price’ in week of suspected suicide onboard

The Guardian - UK

Growing despair of asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm over living conditions

Concerns raised over security, food and lack of information after resident’s suicide as cost of vessel revealed to be more than £22m

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Singapore activist due for Bibby Stockholm ‘would rather die on street’

Yao Hui Charles Yeo, a lawyer and opposition politician, fears for health after recent death on barge

Evening Standard

Bibby Stockholm barge costs taxpayers £22m amid calls for asylum seekers to be rehomed following death

The cost of housing migrants on the barge is revealed as the Home Office is under pressure to find alternatives

The Guardian - UK

‘A moment when politics doesn’t matter’: Portland responds to Bibby Stockholm death

Steady trickle of Dorset residents stop to leave a card or flowers and pay their respects

The National (Scotland)

Support workers apologise after misnaming man who died on board Bibby Stockholm

SUPPORT workers have apologised after misnaming the person who died on board the Bibby Stockholm barge.

The Guardian - UK

Calls grow for Bibby Stockholm barge to close after apparent suicide of resident

Vessel is cramped, a fire risk and unsuitable accommodation for people suffering trauma, say charities

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda bill has Tories outcompeting each other to new levels of insanity

Not even the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm can rein in MPs’ fervour to trample over the international law

The Guardian - UK

A life is lost aboard the Bibby Stockholm. Do these posturing politicians even care?

Threatening asylum seekers with deportation to Rwanda is no deterrent - it just makes life harder for already vulnerable people, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

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