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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. 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.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 were taken to the Dungavel asylum detention centre in South Lanarkshire but have now been moved to Yarls Wood 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." Ms Byansi and her two children, aged five and 12, have lived in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow for four years.
Demonstrators protested at the immigration centre
SNP MSP for Glasgow Sandra White said she had been "targeted" for removal because of her high profile campaigning for other asylum seekers.
She said: "The unfortunate thing is people come along here to Brand St to sign and they have to give their fingerprints.
"They are taken to another room, put in a van and swooped down to Yarls Wood without being able to go back to get their belongings.
"That is inhuman and has to stop."
Campaigner Amal Azzudin visited Ms Byansi in Dungavel earlier in the week.
She said: "Her son, who is five, said 'tell my teachers I am holiday'. What kind of holiday is that, to be locked up? It is something that will scar him for life."
Ms Azzudin said Ms Byansi's older son was very depressed by the experience.