Vanessa Redgrave gives £4,000 to Bibby Stockholm legal fight

Actor’s donation enables fund to reach target in challenge to Home Office’s use of barge to house asylum seekers

Vanessa Redgrave has donated £4,000 to a legal fund challenging the Home Office’s use of the controversial Bibby Stockholm barge to accommodate asylum seekers.

The actor and human rights campaigner has been an outspoken critic of the government’s policy to house asylum seekers on the barge in Portland, Dorset.

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This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.