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| About 70 people have held a demonstration in Glasgow calling for the release of a Ugandan asylum seeker and her children. Zahra Byansi and her two sons were arrested at Brand Street immigration centre in Govan on Monday. | |
| Campaign group Positive Action in Housing claim the family are due to be deported to Uganda on 17 January. | Campaign group Positive Action in Housing claim the family are due to be deported to Uganda on 17 January. |
| Campaigners said Ms Byansi was an upstanding member of the community who should be allowed to stay in Scotland. | |
| The family are currently being held at the Dungavel asylum detention centre in South Lanarkshire and are expected to be moved to Yarlswood Immigration Removal Centre in England. | The family are currently being held at the Dungavel asylum detention centre in South Lanarkshire and are expected to be moved to Yarlswood Immigration Removal Centre in England. |
| Robina Qureshi, director of Positive Action in Housing, said: "She (Ms Byansi) is very depressed that her children are being held in prison conditions and have been taken out of school." | Robina Qureshi, director of Positive Action in Housing, said: "She (Ms Byansi) is very depressed that her children are being held in prison conditions and have been taken out of school." |