Chiara Lauvergnac

Chiara Lauvergnac (born 1961) is an Italian activist based in London.

She describes herself as a "freelance troublemaker"[1] and is a campaigner for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.

In 2009, she was part of a group that protested at Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre at Gatwick against the use of charter flights to deport failed asylum seekers and others to Kurdistan in Iraq.

She was arrested and convicted of aggravated trespass and given a conditional discharge.

[2] In 2015, she was again involved in protests against the deportation of refugees from the United Kingdom at Gatwick Airport during which she was arrested and subsequently fined.