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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Activists who blocked road to stop UK deportation flight to Jamaica acquitted

Police officers and two police vehicles next to a tall wire fence
Police guarding a road during a separate anti-deportation protest at Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick in June 2022. Photograph: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images

Three activists who lay on a road outside an immigration detention centre to prevent people being put on a Home Office deportation flight to Jamaica have been cleared by a jury of charges of causing a public nuisance.

The acquittal at Lewes crown court was hailed by the defendants at a time when the right to non-violent protest is under unprecedented threat.

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