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Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK is rushing to return asylum seekers to the EU before Brexit makes it harder to do so. Data obtained by Novara Media shows the UK made up to 154% more transfer requests to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Denmark this year, an uptick lawyers say has resulted in a catalogue of harmful and unlawful failings. Rivkah Brown reports.

15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right

Sam Walton

On 6 February, the Stansted 15 - a group of activists who stopped a deportation flight - were sentenced after being found guilty of terror-related offences. In the face of a judge who wanted to find them guilty from the moment they stepped into court, avoiding imprisonment was a real achievement. Here are 15 things the Stansted 15 did right.

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Meets the Stansted 15

The Stansted 15 have avoided immediate jail sentences. Ash Sarkar attended their sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court in solidarity and talked to them about the wider implications of their case, the hostile environment and deportation charter flights in the UK.

Stansted 15: Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terror-Related Charges

Beth Perkin, Charlotte England

In an exclusive interview with Novara Media, activists who took direct action to prevent 60 people being deported to Nigeria and Ghana speak out about why they stopped the plane and what it was like to spend nine weeks on trial charged with an offence created in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing.

A Short Guide to Deportation Charter Flights

Phil Miller

Mass deportations on chartered aircraft are only one small part of the UK’s deportation system. But in many ways they are the system’s most violent and terrifying instrument, taking place away from the public gaze in secretive night-time flights.

Long Read: The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It

Ewa Jasiewicz

On Monday 15 people will face trial on terror-related charges for blockading a deportation charter flight last year. Ewa Jasiewicz reflects on the history of radical direct action-orientated solidarity in the UK and how this action was the first of its kind.

5 Ways to Help End Deportations and Stop Charter Flights

End Deportations

On Tuesday night, activists blocked the runway at Stansted airport and stopped a charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana. Here are five ways to get involved with the fight to end deportations and stop charter flights.

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