Lakhvir Singh, 34, says officers sent by the Home Office barged into his Glasgow flat yesterday at around 10am and arrested him and his friend Sumit Sehdevi.
Scotland police frees 2 Indians from detention van after protests
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Glasgow, May 15 : Police in Scotland have freed two Indian nationals, who were held inside a detention van, after protesters surrounded the vehicle demanding their release, according to a media report.
The incident took place on Thursday in Glasgow s Kenmure Street following a stand-off between the police and protesters, the BBC report said.
Earlier in the day, the two men had been removed from a flat and were lodged in a UK Home Office detention van.
London, May 15
Two Indian men being held in a detention van on “suspected immigration offences” walked free with the help of a human rights lawyer after an eight-hour protest by their nei
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Scottish police ordered the release on Thursday of two Indian men who had been detained by British immigration officials, after hundreds of protesters in Glasgow blocked the path of a van carrying the detainees.
Scotland s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to wrest immigration powers from the United Kingdom government, welcomed the police force s actions and blamed the British government for what she called a dangerous situation .
Video footage showed the two men emerging from the back of a van belonging to Britain s interior ministry, which sets immigration rules for the whole United Kingdom.
After a stand-off lasting several hours, a crowd of onlookers clapped and cheered as one of the men waved and police officers made space for them to walk free, pending further investigation.
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One of the men released from the custody of British immigration officials after hundreds of protesters blocked the van he was detained in says he s so happy that fate brought him to live in Glasgow.
On Thursday, hundreds of people surrounded a van headed to a detention centre and secured the temporary release of two Indian men who had been put inside after a raid on a property on Kenmure Street in the Scottish city.
The UK Home Office van was blockaded by demonstrators for around eight hours.
One protester climbed under the van to stop it from moving, while others chanted these are our neighbours, let them go.