Heroic Swedish Student FOILS Deportation During Plane Protest
July 26, 2018
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as posted by the channelSwedish student Elin Ersson refused to sit down until an asylum seeker was removed from the plane which was sending him back to Afghanistan. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
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---A lone student activist on board a plane at Gothenburg airport has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing to sit down until the man was removed from the flight.
Her successful protest, footage of which spread rapidly across the internet, shines a spotlight on domestic opposition to Sweden’s tough asylum regime, at a time when immigration and asylum are topping the agenda of a general election campaign in which the far right is polling strongly.
“I hope that people start questioning how their country treats refugees,” Elin Ersson, 21, told the Guardian in an interview. “We need to start seeing the people whose lives our immigration [policies] are destroying.”---
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