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Naomie Harris is among over 80 high-profile figures urging airlines to reject a mass deportation flight of up to 50 people to Jamaica next week
SCORES of black celebrities, Windrush campaigners and activists have urged airlines to not to operate a “wholly inappropriate” mass deportation flight of up to 50 people to Jamaica next week.
The 82 high-profile figures include supermodel Naomi Campbell, actors Thandie Newton and Naomie Harris, novelist Bernardine Evaristo and former Metropolitan Police superintendent Leroy Logan.
They signed an open letter to the bosses of six airlines known to have worked with the Home Office on deportation charter flights, as did leading Windrush campaigners including Michael Braithwaite and Elwaldo Romeo.
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