The direct action is understood to have been organised in part by Black Lives Matter.
One of the coordinators, Kojo Kyerewaa, told the Guardian: “Our friends who are at a Home Office hotel got notification that they were going to be taken to the Bibby Stockholm today.”
“We know that the residents don’t want to leave and we know that the Bibby Stockholm is a dangerous place to put anyone. It’s unsanitary and one person has taken their own life being there and there’s been multiple attempts of suicide by people told that they’re going to the Bibby Stockholm.
“We have been organising to prevent that and it’s so far been successful. We’ve got at least 50 people blocking this coach on Peckham road right now.”
