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."