Posted on May 24th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A Sri Lankan student, detained by the Japanese immigration begged to be released to a hospital for medical care.
But, the officials refused.
She died on March 6, 2021 alone in her cell.
Protesters holding up pictures of Wishma during a demonstration in Tokyo. (Courtesy: Kyodo)
The records reviewed by Daily Mirror show instructions from a doctor reading: If (medicine) cannot be administered orally, she should receive an IV drip and be hospitalised.” The comment contradicts the content of the interim report, which says no recommendation for hospitalisation was made
Wishma dreamed of becoming an English teacher in Japan. She loved the country, its culture, and its people so dearly that when her mother was nervous about sending Wishma alone to an unknown country, Wishma said It is Japan. I am gonna be safe and fine.”
May 22, 2021 04:45:20 pm
The government of Japan pulled a bill Tuesday meant to amend the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. The decision follows criticism stemming from the death of a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman at an immigration detention center in Nagoya in March. The woman had been held at the detention center since August 2020 after her visa had expired. She had arrived in Japan in 2017 on a student visa, but her cause of death remains unknown.
Cabinet had approved the revisions to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act in February, and the National Diet was considering the proposed amendments. The bill has received an intense backlash from activists and lawyers. A rally organized in opposition to the bill was attended by opposition lawmakers and human rights organizations. At the same time, an online petition raised more than 100,000 signatures.
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Editorial: With immigration bill shelved, Japan must inspect human rights issues The Mainichi
The Japanese government and ruling parties have given up on passing a revision to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act during the ongoing Diet session, which would have made it easier to repatriate foreign nationals staying in Japan in an unauthorized capacity.
The government determined that it would be difficult to steamroller the bill through the Diet as various public opinion polls have recently shown that support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has been dropping. The bill is expected to be scrapped.
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