(Local) A student activist who grounded a flight to delay the deportation of a rejected Afghan asylum seeker will face a retrial.
The Court of Appeal for Western Sweden has overturned the judgement in activist Elin Ersson’s case, due to comments one of the lay judges made months before the trial. In February, Ersson was fined … 3,000 kronor ($325) by a district court for breaking aviation law.
The judge described Ersson as a “criminal” in a comment on a news article.
“This statement must be considered as damaging the trust in the lay judge’s impartiality in the case,” the court of appeal wrote in a statement.
