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Campaigners praise protesters for foiling the removal of Glasgow asylum-seekers
Legal experts call on First Minister to end co-operation and data sharing between Police Scotland and the Home Office
One of two men are released from the back of an Immigration Enforcement van accompanied by Mohammad Asif, director of the Afghan Human Rights Foundation, in Kenmure Street, Glasgow, last Thursday

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. 

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