🇯🇵 Immigration official assaults a #Kurdish man, government orders 220,000 jpyen compensation; ``What they're doing is torture'' victim holds angry press conference
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入管で職員がクルド人男性暴行、国に22万円賠償命令 「やっていることは拷問」被害者が怒りの会見<動画あり>:東京新聞デジタル

東日本入国管理センター(茨城県牛久市)で収容中に職員から暴行を受けたとして、トルコ国籍でクルド人のデニズさん(44)が国に約1113万...

東京新聞デジタル
What the immigration authorities are doing is torture. Please don't trust the immigration authorities." After the verdict, Deniz held a press conference in Tokyo, unable to contain his anger as he reflected on his experience inside the immigration facility.
The first thing he said through an interpreter was, ``Although we won today's court case, I fear that the immigration authorities will continue to treat us similarly badly.'' During her most recent three-and-a-half year detention period, she emphasized, ``I experienced something similar (to the act now recognized as illegal) about 20 times.'' "We are not treated as human beings at all. Are we going to be put in a facility to be tortured?"
Lawyer Tsuyoshi Ohashi, who represented the case, said, ``I highly commend the fact that the immigration authorities were found to be illegal.There are some aspects of the content that were not recognized, so I would like to consider filing an appeal.''
In the Diet, deliberations are progressing on a bill to revise the Immigration Control and Refugee Act that would revise the rules for detention and deportation of foreigners, but criticism has been raised over the content of the bill, which would, in principle, deport third-time and subsequent refugee applicants. Deniz argued, ``I came to Japan to protect my life, but my life is being disrespected and disrespected. Should I go back to my country and be killed? I am against reforming the Immigration Control and Refugee Act.''