Swedish Student Buys Plane Ticket To Stop Afghan Man From Being Deported

Swedish student who refused to sit down on flight in effort to stop man's deportation to Afghanistan is indicted - Fox News

Ellen Errson is brave girl ,she shows human being to world , i respect each drop of her tears . Nowdays if someone give his/her blood to sombody still the poeple doubt it oh she is attention seeking that is big fault and very bad thought minimally if you dont know the details then you have to think positive first . I respect europe rules ,everything is clear there and milloin thanks from their kindness to accept the most unlucky poeple in the world and obviuosly if somebody is a threat for them they have to deport him. But they way she chosed was very emotional and painfull ,her crying and passengers bad feeling was not the only option . Now the Europe should make their poeple reassure that they are doing the justice properly and they dont need to worry about it ,which i m as afghan realise and accepting most of europe countries justice. For me her emotion and great feeling is very worthfull. Long live Ellen Errson

I'm from the USA but lived in Sweden 25 years ago. They are a wonderfully generous people who welcomed those who struggled from around the globe. I met people from South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe, people hoping for a better life. Many refugees were welcomed in and even took the lower paying jobs the Swedes didn't want. There were some who were denied asylum in the country. This girl is a product of that Sweden that welcomed people. While the country, lately, has had contention about immigration there are still many who still want to welcome immigrants. I don't have the full story and I agree that the actions of this girl only delayed a deportation, but I think it's admirable for people to peacefully stand up to what they think is incorrect. In many other places in the world this type of protest would have turned violent. @GUWonder, thanks for your reasoned comments

@ racist Jim, you failed to answer the questions asked of you. If the country is so safe for Afghans to be sent there after years of living abroad, when can we get photographic evidence of you daring to sleep for a week on the streets of Kabul around a marketplace open to the general Afghan public and doing so without weapons of your own very close by, without armed protection within ear-shot, and not in a heavily fortified area? Answer my questions asked if you, and then I’ll consider your questions asked of me. ;) @ George, Stop pretending to care about the rule of law. The rule of law applicable to Afghan refugees in Sweden legally binds Sweden and the US not to send people back to places where their life and limbs may be in jeopardy due to credible fear of physical violence along treaty-protected lines applicable to so-called civilized countries. As you may have failed to note, the US government is not unlike in Sweden in having a strong advisory about how unsafe it is to go to Afghanistan. There is no unitary culture or morals to respect in civilized, so-called democratic countries. There should be the rule of law, but when the public and their governmental authorities play games to disrespect the rule of law and thereby remove people against the rule of law to which the country has signed up, then what kind of signal does that send? The signal it sends is this: that the rule of law is least applicable to the strongest, most popular and most capable parties but not applicable to the weaker, unpopular and least capable parties. And so people get deported because the rule of law was so creatively circumvented as to be a sign that the rule of law is but a sham when the privileged want it to be. Is that sham approach part of the culture and morality you want followed? Then you would seem to be a supporter of fraudulent refugee claims or someone who thinks circumventing the rule of law in the spirit of xenophobia is (or should be) part of the morality and culture of the places where people claim refugee/asylum status. Immoral birds of the same feather, or bad moral birds of the same feather. ;)

@ racist guwonder, I was last in Afghanistan about two years ago - when were you there? Bringing President Trump into the discussion only make you look more the fool. And yes; I still support sending criminal Afghans back to the very streets I was walking just a short time ago.