The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court decision that ordered the central government to pay 1.65 million yen ($10,600) to the family of a Cameroonian man who died while detained at an immigration facility in Ibaraki Prefecture.
A Japanese high court upholds a lower court ruling ordering the government to pay 1.65 million yen ($10,600) in damages to the bereaved family of a Cameroonian man who died in 2014 while being detained in an immigration control facility in eastern Japan.
The Tokyo District Court on April 20 ordered the government to pay 220,000 yen ($1,640) in compensation to a Kurdish man who claims immigration detention staff assaulted him while he was being detained four years ago.