Editing London Stansted Airport (section)

=== Protest incidents ===

* In 2008, 57 people were arrested after [[Plane Stupid]], an environmental activist group, broke through the barriers and created a "stockade" on a [[taxiway]], which resulted in 52 flights being cancelled.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 December 2008 |title=Runway protest strands passengers |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7771079.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428190256/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7771079.stm |archive-date=28 April 2009 |access-date=11 May 2010 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
* In March 2018, a group of activists delayed a deportation flight to Nigeria.<ref name="batchelor">{{cite news |last1=Batchelor |first1=Tom |date=28 March 2017 |title=Stansted Airport runway closed after activists stage protest against Home Office deportation flight |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stansted-airport-closed-protesters-deportation-plane-runway-a7655036.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214174216/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stansted-airport-closed-protesters-deportation-plane-runway-a7655036.html |archive-date=14 December 2018 |access-date=14 December 2018 |work=The Independent}}</ref> Fifteen of the protestors were found guilty of "intentional disruption of services at an aerodrome", under the ''Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990''. This verdict on the ''Stansted 15'' was described in ''[[New Statesman]]'' as having a [[chilling effect]] on public dissent.<ref name="camiss">{{cite news |last1=Camiss |first1=Stephen |date=11 December 2018 |title=The use of anti-terror laws to convict the Stansted 15 will chill public dissent |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/12/use-anti-terror-laws-convict-stansted-15-will-chill-public-dissent |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214164210/https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/12/use-anti-terror-laws-convict-stansted-15-will-chill-public-dissent |archive-date=14 December 2018 |access-date=14 December 2018 |work=New Statesman}}</ref>