A student activist who prevented a plane from taking off to stop an Afghan man from being deported has said she wants to stop all legal returns to the country. Elin Ersson, 22, purchased a ticket from Gothenburg to Istanbul to stop a man being sent back from Sweden, by disrupting the flight. Elin broadcast her protest live on Facebook in which she refused to sit down on Tuesday - recording disgruntled passengers and airline staff ordering her to take her seat. Speaking to The Guardian after the footage, which showed she was eventually backed by fellow passengers, she said: 'I was so caught in the moment that I didn't really realise that everyone was looking at me. 'My focus was all on stopping a deportation to Afghanistan.' Eventually Miss Ersson, the Afghan man and his assigned security were removed from the flight. However, Miss Ersson revealed the man she was trying to save was not on the plane - instead, a 50-year-old man was being deported. The studen