Stansted Airport was forced to close its runway on Tuesday evening (28-03-2017) because protesters had surrounded a parked plane. Activists said they were attempting to stop a deportation flight. Media like The Independent copied airport press reports which tried to make it all sound tiny saying the airport was ‘briefly’ closed etc:
Http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stansted-airport-closed-protesters-deportation-plane-runway-a7655036.html
But Stop Charter Flights reported later that night that the flight crew had gone home, the steps to access the plane had been removed and the deportation flight was no longer scheduled to leave that same night.
In short: the activists succeeded in what they planned to do! https://www.facebook.com/StopCharterFlights/videos/595254370664074/
Stop Charter Flights, Plane Stupid & Lesbians and Gays supports the Migrants were at this and have shared footage of the action:
https://www.facebook.com/lgsmigrants/posts/1888720761397749
LGSM report: We’ve blockaded Stansted Airport along with Plane Stupid and Stop Charter Flights. End Deportations stopping a mass deportation flight to Nigeria and Ghana.
For too long the government has kept these brutal mass deportation flights under wraps. The UK government is snatching people from their beds in the dead of night, handcuffing them and forcing them on to planes with no witnesses. That’s not the kind of society we want to live in. We must stop these violent mass deportations now.
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