All illustrations by Carrie Mackinnon. All rights reserved.
Fifteen human rights defenders who stopped a UK deportation flight were stunned to be charged and convicted under anti-terrorism legislation. They feared long custodial sentences. This morning, at Chelmsford Crown Court, they learned that they would not be jailed. Meanwhile in Birmingham another deportation flight took off.
Action and trial
At London Stansted Airport on the night of 28 March 2017, wearing hi-viz pink vests, 15 activists locked themselves to a plane being chartered by the Home Office.
