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 student who works with refugees believes the man she attempted to keep in Sweden was taken back to his war-torn country of origin via Stockholm. But his family has had no news on his whereabouts. She said: 'This is how deportations in Sweden work. The people involved know nothing and they are not allowed to reach out to their lawyers or family,' she says in a text the next day. 'My ultimate goal is to end deportations to Afghanistan.' Source
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