Stansted 15 victory
The dropping of counter-terror charges against the fifteen activists from End Deportations who blocked the takeoff of a flight deporting people to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone in 2017 is a victory for determined campaigning and for solidarity. The judge said that “the appellants should not have been prosecuted for the extremely serious offence” contained in a section of the 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act – a law passed in response to the Lockerbie bombing, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Among the deportees on the 2017 flight were victims of human trafficking...