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UK: Lynn Barber article breached refugee’s privacy after it was published in Sunday Times magazine without his consent, rules IPSO

Posted on February 5, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Freddy Mayhew reports:

Lynn Barber’s Sunday Times article about taking a refugee into her home breached the man’s privacy after it was published without his consent, the UK’s largest press regulator has ruled.

The first-hand account, which ran across six pages of the newspaper’s magazine on 28 May, 2017, covered the journalist’s own experience of having Sudanese asylum-seeker Mohammed Ahmed stay at her house for six months.

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