Angus Crawford from BBC Radio 4's PM programme reports. A quiet morning for the Lufthansa staff at Heathrow's Terminal 2 is rudely interupted by the arrival of some unexpected customers. Unfurling banners, handing out leaflets and chanting slogans a dozen activists from Bristol bring the work to a standstill. They urge passengers to refuse to sit down once on the plane, forcing the airline to take the asylum seeker off. Some travellers ignore them, others take leaflets.
Police arrive in numbers and break up the demonstration.
They escort activists out of the terminal, one man is restrained and placed in a police van. A senior officer reveals Amanj Gafor was deported from Gatwick earlier the same day. The protest has failed in its main aim, but campaigner Liza Schuster remains undaunted. The government is to blame, she says. Detain them very quickly deport them as fast as possible is their method, so we have no choice but come to the airport and try to stop deportations.