2019-02-06 Stansted 15 sentencing
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Chelmsford, UK. 6th February, 2019. Activists from around the UK gather to show solidarity with the Stansted 15 before their sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court. The Stansted 15 were convicted on 10th December of an anti-terrorism offence under the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 following non-violent direct action to try to prevent a Home Office deportation flight carrying precarious migrants to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone from taking off from Stansted airport in March 2017.