Video footage of a Sri Lankan detainee being fed by Nagoya immigration officials despite her vomiting confirms that she was mistreated there before her death, an attorney for her bereaved family said Oct. 5.
Posted on May 30th, 2021
By RYUICHI KITANO/ Senior Staff Writer courtesy Asahi Shimbun
Wayomi Sandamali, right on the front row, and her sister Poornima, to her right, at a gathering to remember their sister, Wishma, at Tsukiji Hongwanji temple in Tokyo on May 29. (Rei Kishitsu)
The sisters of a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman who died while being held in detention at an immigration facility for overstaying her visa are continuing their campaign for the truth” surrounding her death with renewed calls for the release of surveillance camera footage.
It breaks my heart when I think about my sister who died in pain in Japan, a country that she had loved,” said 28-year-old Wayomi Sandamali at a gathering in Tokyo to remember her sister Wishma. About 500 mourners visited Tsukiji Hongwanji temple in Chuo Ward.
A copy of Wishma Sandamali s medical records (Rei Kishitsu)
Medical records of the Sri Lankan woman who died at an immigration detention facility in March contradict the interim report released by the Justice Ministry’s Immigration Services Agency of Japan in April.
A doctor wrote in early February that Wishma Sandamali, 33, required “IV or hospitalization if she can’t take (medications) orally,” according to medical records obtained by The Asahi Shimbun.
That contradicts the interim report, released on April 9, which said the doctor “never gave an instruction for an IV or hospitalization.”
According to upper endoscopy test results and other reports by a gastroenterologist who saw Sandamali, she was frequently vomiting.