Challenging the brutal deportation system is a must

An alleged charter flight to Jamaica is scheduled for next week alongside the sentencing of the Stanstead 15. We must acknowledge the implications for charter flights and the hostile environment, writes Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert

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Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert

IN MARCH2017, 15 people made their way to a remote part of Stansted airport, where deportation charter flights have been known to take off in the middle of the night.

The 15 were part of a wider network of people, and were acting on knowledge that the flight leaving that night would be deporting people to Ghana and Nigeria.

Detained Voices, a group of immigration detainees and supporters had been publishing testimonies of some of those due to be on that flight.

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