U.K. Bars Entry to Two Far-Right Activists

Officials say presence of American Brittany Pettibone and Austrian Martin Sellner ‘is not conducive to the public good’

LONDON—The U.K. government refused entry to two political activists, saying it wasn’t in the public interest for them to be in Britain.

American Brittany Pettibone, a YouTube commentator, and far-right Austrian activist Martin Sellner, the co-founder of an anti-immigrant movement, were traveling together and detained at Luton airport, north of London, on Friday and deported on Sunday.

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