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CAMPAIGNERS have praised the foiled removal of two Glasgow asylum-seekers as a show of people power, with the men saved from detention thanking those who forced goverment officers to withdraw.
Hundreds of protesters rejoiced in Glasgow on Thursday evening as two men, Lakhvir Singh and Sumit Sehdevi, were freed after a day-long battle between campaigners and law enforcement.
Significant community support forced police to release the pair both Indian nationals who have lived in Glasgow for a decade back into the community.
Mr Singh told ITV News: “I m so happy that my fate brought me to live here in Glasgow, where the people are so connected that they’ll come out onto the streets to help one of their own.”
IT is increasingly apparent that the UK Government is incapable of delivering an immigration system that reflects Scotland’s values of compassion and dignity, the Justice Secretary has said. Humza Yousaf (below) was responding to an urgent question at Holyrood from Green MSP Patrick Harvie following the mass protest in Pollokshields on Thursday, triggered after Home Office officials tried to detain two Indian nationals on Eid – the religious festival that marks the end of Ramadan. A crowd of more than 1000 people descended on Kenmure Street, gathering around and even under the van trying to remove the men. Harvie asked Yousaf what engagement the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government and Police Scotland over the community’s response to the attempted immigration enforcement action.
Scottish parliamentarians have heard about the terrible circumstances endured by asylum seekers SUPPORT for asylum seekers and others who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF) has risen “drastically” in the year of Covid-19, yet many have been living for months with no money, MSPs have been told. Robina Qureshi, director of Positive Action in Housing (PAH), told Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee the charity had supported more people between April and December last year than the whole of the previous year, even though consultations last year were by necessity socially distanced. Contacts were initiated digitally using Facebook groups or WhatsApp networks, but consultations were frequently conducted outside their offices.
Equality campaigners to give evidence in landmark gender court case EQUALITY campaigners are to give evidence in a legal case which they say would have a “chilling effect” on transgender Scots. Scottish Trans (ST) has been granted permission to intervene in a case which is being taken by a women’s rights group over the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act 2018. The Act is supposed to improve gender equality within Scottish public bodies, by requiring 50 per cent of non-executive board members to be women. However two years after the law was introduced, campaigners For Women Scotland (FWS) are arguing that the Scottish Government did not have the right to introduce it as equalities legislation is reserved to Westminster.