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Glasgow Kenmure Street protest one of world's 2021 demonstrations that 'made a difference'

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Glasgow's Kenmure Street protest has become one of the top 10 protests in the world which 'you may have missed that made a difference in 2021.' The demonstration stopped an attempt by the UK Home Office to detain two Sikh men from India, Lakhvir Singh and Sumit Sehdev.

It came after a 'dawn raid' at a property in the Pollokshields area in the southside of the city in May 2021, writes Glasgow Live.

The protest has been called 'one of the biggest demonstrations of civic defiance seen in the UK in recent history' by Third Sector.Both men were eventually released after being held in a van by enforcement personnel for over eight hours following a stand-off between protestors and police.And amid a sea of goodwill directed at those who helped

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