{"id":32020,"date":"2019-02-06T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32020"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:22:31","slug":"they-shut-down-an-airport-to-help-now-they-face-life-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32020","title":{"rendered":"They shut down an airport to help. Now they face life in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>Under cover of darkness, the activists use bolt croppers to cut through the airport&#8217;s perimeter fence, squeezing through the gap they&#8217;ve created and running across the open tarmac towards their target: a plane, readying for take-off.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the video provided by the group to CNN, they can be seen dressed in bright pink, unfurling a banner reading &#8220;No one is illegal,&#8221; before securing themselves to one another using pipes and expandable building foam beneath the government-chartered aircraft at Stansted Airport, just outside London.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Their aim: to prevent the plane and its passengers &#8212; 60 people whose immigration status had been ruled illegal, and who were being deported back to Nigeria and Ghana &#8212; from leaving British soil.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)Under cover of darkness, the activists use bolt croppers to cut through the airport&#8217;s perimeter fence, squeezing through the gap they&#8217;ve created and running across the open tarmac towards their target: a plane, readying for take-off.In the video provided by the group to CNN, they can be seen dressed in bright pink, unfurling a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}