Scotsman: "A popular pastor who faces deportation along with his family has been granted bail following a court hearing.

Pastor Makielokele Nzelengi Daly, his wife Isabel and their four children were arrested in Glasgow last Saturday and taken to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre in England.

Nearly 50 supporters had gathered at the immigration court for the bail hearing in Bothwell Street, Glasgow, along with MSPs Sandra White, SNP, and Rosie Kane, Scottish Socialist Party.

Daly's lawyers said the pastor had a bail bond until April next year and did not expect him to be detained while this was valid.

Pastor Daly fled from his native Angola claiming to be in fear of his life for refusing to spy on his congregation and give information about its members to the government.

The clergyman and his family, who have lived in Scotland for the past five years, were not present at the hearing.

The Home Office opposed bail but immigration judge Hugh Macleman raised the bond from £4,000 to £5,000 and ruled that he should be freed.

MSP Rosie Kane, of the Scottish Socialist Party, who has paid £4,000 of the bail bond, acted as cautioner for the clergyman at the hearing.

She said outside: 'We have overturned a terrible wrong. Why was Pastor Daly put through this terrible trauma of being arrested and taken to Yarl's Wood? We strongly believe if he is sent back to Angola he and his family will undergo interrogation and torture and possibly worse.'

Five hundred pounds of the extra bail money was paid by SNP MSP Sandra White and the other £500 by Margaret Woods, of the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees."

The Herald

It was a whistle-stop appearance, but there was time enough for the tall figure, all in black save for the white peace poppy on her lapel, to create a stir.
The minute Cindy Sheehan stepped from the car outside the Scottish Parliament, the 60-strong group of anti-war campaigners, including two other mothers who lost children in Iraq, surged towards her...
Among those demonstrators waiting to greet her was Rose Gentle whose son, Gordon, also lost his life in the conflict.
The two met earlier this year when Mrs Gentle, 42, from Glasgow, flew out to the US to take part in an anti-war march and rally in Washington.
Also there yesterday was Susan Smith, 44, from Staffordshire, whose son, Phillip, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. All three took the microphone to launch a fierce criticism of Jack McConnell, the first minister, Mrs Gentle accusing him of being "a coward and a disgrace to Scotland".
She added: "He will send our sons to die, but he won't come and speak to the mothers. He can't look us in the eyes."
Mrs Sheehan took up the attack, comparing Mr McConnell to her president: "They don't have as much courage as our sons did and they don't have the answers to our questions."

David Swanson of the After Downing Street project also spoke to the rally yesterday and he filed this report on the trip to the American Chronicle.

"Our first stop was a rally outside the Scottish parliament. A number of Members of the Scottish Parliament spoke, including Colin Fox, leader of the Scottish Socialist Party; Tommy Sheridan, also from the SSP; Francis Curran, SSP; and Christine Grahame, of the Scottish Nationalist Party. At the meeting inside following the rally at least one MSP from the Scottish Green Party participated. Only the Labour Party was AWOL – McConnell said he was too busy to stop by.

Rose Gentle said McConnell "is running scared from military families." But she had some choice words for Blair as well. "I wonder," she said, " what Tony Blair's face looks like when he gets home and takes the makeup off. I wonder if he has as many bags as we've got….I'm sorry, Mr. Blair. Military Families are going to haunt you until our boys come home.

Another speaker at the rally was John Mann, a priest who said that a young person recently asked him out of the blue whether he thought God would forgive George Bush. He said he responded that it was a good question. He told me that what struck him was that years ago that question was always asked about Hitler.

Cindy Sheehan, whose last name means peace in Gaelic, told the rally that "there are Cindy Sheehans all over the world."

The cross-party meeting was an opportunity for Members of the Scottish Parliament to hear from Rose, Susan, and Cindy. About 18 of us sat around a table, including the three mothers and a few other activists, and several MSPs. Keir McKechnie, Co-Chair of the Glasgow Stop the War Coalition did the introductions.

Colin Fox extended "the warmest possible welcome, which should have been extended by the First Minister." Fox noted that "when Bush came in July, [McConnell] was prepared to run about the country and do whatever George Bush wanted."

"I'm a socialist and a democrat," Fox said. "Democrats do not support regime change in another country. The majority of people in America and Britain want the troops out. And most importantly, 82 percent of Iraqis want the troops out. The democratic credentials of Bush, Blair, and McConnell are in serious doubt."

Rose Gentle said that any money paid to the families of dead soldiers is "blood money." She said she'd also been offered free vacations to keep her quiet. "I won't take nothing off them. What we want is our boy back. If we can't have him back, we want everybody else's boys back."

US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan today visited Scotland. Cindy's son was killed in the Iraq war and she met with other Military Families against the war, including Rose Gentle and Susan Smith. At lunchtime she visited the Scottish Parliament and is pictured above speaking outside the parliament with Colin Fox MSP and Pat Smith. Tonight she is due to speak to a meeting in Glasgow.

The Herald

Rosie Kane, the Scottish Socialist MSP, and nine other protesters were fined a total of £3000 yesterday after being found guilty of breaking the law during an anti-nuclear demonstration in which they sat in a giant mock submarine.
Kane, 44, and the others had placed the large model submarine – described as being between 20 and 30ft long – on the road outside Holyrood.
They chose the spot on Canongate in a bid to attract the attention of MSPs. But their actions saw them end up at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. All 10 were accused of blocking the road there on March 10 this year and obstructing the police.
They had denied the charges but, at the end of a three-day trial, Sheriff Noel McPartlin found them all guilty of both offences. He fined each of them £50 for obstructing the road and £250 for obstructing the police in their duty.
During the trial the accused had argued that they all had a reasonable excuse for their behaviour because they were protesting against nuclear weapons, which they said were illegal under international law.
Outside court, Kane, who is an MSP for Glasgow, said: "We won't be paying and we will do the time".
"We knew what we were undertaking and at the end of the day we put Trident in the dock and that's worth it."

The Herald

Rosie Kane, the Scottish Socialist Party MSP who helped secure bail for the family and has acted as guarantor, said she was outraged at the Home Office's decision and lawyers were seeking a judicial review of the case, claiming the government had made a number of legal errors.
She said: "This is the second time these children have been locked up and it is unnecessary, completely unjustified, and deplorable that a family should be taken away from their friends and home life."