Exclusive: Last weekend, the Department of Justice denied claims of overcrowding at the hotel
Refugees in a hotel at the centre of an overcrowding storm insisted last night videos showing 10 beds crammed into one room are not fake.
Khashayar said he is one of the lucky ones because he is staying in another room and is sharing with just two other men from Afghanistan.Khashayar, from Tehran in Iran, said: “In my country, I have a big problem. I can’t go back there.He insisted that if the State gave him permission to work, he could leave the emergency accommodation and fend for himself.
“As we complained, the Ombudsman came here and they said the place would change, but nothing changed.” “It’s exactly as was shown in that video clip that the department was claiming was staged there at the weekend.
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