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Wanneer: 04/12/2018 - 21:33

Today Code Rood stands in solidarity with the Stansted15 as their long trial draws to a close in the UK this week. We firmly believe that our brave comrades should walk free after having been put through so much by the British judicial system over the last two years. We know why they acted to stop the deportation flight as they did, their actions spoke louder than our words can on the dire need to resist the secretive, brutal and racist deportation system in the UK.

More on the case can be found here.

Code Rood supports the struggle for open borders. The links between migration and climate change are clear. Many people across the world have already been forced to leave their homes due to the impacts of climate chaos, as droughts, floods and resultant famines increase. As the climate changes further and the walls of Fortress Europe grow higher, the need to resist brutal and barely legal deportation systems like that of the UK increases.

Taking collective action is central to the work of Code Rood and we commend the strategic, safe, peaceful and successful action the Stansted15 took to ground the deportation flight. It has resulted in two of the planes occupants being granted permanent leave to remain in the UK, whilst others onboard continue to fight their asylum cases on UK soil.

We call on the UK state to drop the terrorism related charges that threaten to incarcerate these activists with potential life sentences if found guilty. Our love and solidarity goes out to the Stansted15 this week as the jury are sent out to deliberate.

End deportations! Free the Stansted15!

https://code-rood.org/nl/2018/12/04/solidarity-with-the-stansted15/