'Stansted 15' protesters win legal challenge to overturn convictions | Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
By Press Association 2021 Six members of the 'Stansted 15' outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London Protesters taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off from Stansted Airport have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. The so-called “Stansted 15” cut through the Essex airport’s perimeter fence in March 2017 and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa. They were convicted ...
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