A campaign has been launched calling for charges against three people involved in the Kenmure Street protest to be dropped.
The three people were arrested during a mass demonstration in Pollokshields in May last year.
Hundreds of people flooded into the street to prevent immigration enforcement officers from carrying out a 'dawn raid' on two men who had been removed from their homes.
An eight-hour stand-off with police ensued before negotiations resulted in both men - Sumit Sehdev and Lakhvir Singh - being released.
Police later announced that they had arrested and charged a 23-year-old woman and two men, aged 31 and 32, for public order offences and sent a report to the Procurator Fiscal.
The three were told earlier this year that the state intends to proceed with prosecutions, with trial dates set for early August, reports The Guardian.
The 'Kenmure Street Three' have now launched a petition calling for their charges to be dropped and have appealed for footage that could help their defense.
The public has also been asked to lobby MPs about the case.
A statement released by the group explains: "We are three people who were violently arrested during the mass community resistance to a home office raid on Kenmure Street, Glasgow, last year.
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"Despite the Scottish Government condemning the raid, in February we found out that the state intends to prosecute us. Our trials are scheduled for the 3rd and 4th of August 2022.
"The police want you to believe that they were somehow there to facilitate the protest; they were not. They were there to enable the kidnapping of two men by the racist home office. While resisting this alongside thousands of others, we were brutalised, locked up, and are now facing a repressive and distressing court process. We should not have to go through this.
"Please help us by signing and sharing this petition demanding that our charges are dropped now."
A spokesperson for Police Scotland confirmed the arrests and said it had received no complaints in relation to the protest. “Police Scotland is a rights-based organisation.
“This means that we will protect the rights of people who wish to peacefully protest or counter-protest, balanced against the rights of the wider community.”
You can view the petition here.
