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Scottish amateur boxer Dastan Kamil ends hunger strike after Home Office agrees to citizenship meeting
From Barry McGuigan and Carl Frampton to Tyrone McKenna and Lewis Crocker, the city’s fighters carry a complex history into the ring, writes JOHN WIGHT
SCOTTISH amateur lightweight boxing champion Dastan Kamil called on supporters yesterday to keep the pressure on the Home Office as he waits for his citizenship meeting next Thursday.
Kamil and his Kurdish-Iraqi family began a hunger strike on Wednesday outside the Home Office’s Immigration Reporting Centre in Glasgow.
They went without food or water for over 24 hours before the officials agreed to a meeting. Kamil wants “as many people as possible to come along next week when we are meeting. That way they can’t deny us.”
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