{"id":10407,"date":"2012-07-06T00:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2012-07-07T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:20:55","slug":"suraj-case-chiba-prosecutors-decide-not-to-indict-10-immigration-officers-in-whose-custody-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10407","title":{"rendered":"Suraj Case: Chiba prosecutors decide not to indict 10 Immigration officers in whose custody he died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Sad news. The Suraj Case, which has been covered in various media reproduced here on Debito.org<\/a>, has wound up as predicted: With the Immigration officers getting off with no indictment and the GOJ getting away with murder (if not negligence leading to homicide while in official custody). Even the Japan Times called his death “brutal”<\/a>. It’s bad enough when you have a criminal justice system where even citizens are victims of “hostage justice”.<\/a> \u00a0It’s another when you can get away with killing somebody during deportation just because they’re foreign. \u00a0One more brick in the wall to demonstrate that once the Japanese police get your hands on you as a NJ, you don’t stand a Chinaman’s Chance, be it in Japan’s criminal investigations<\/a>, incarceration systems<\/a>, jurisprudence and standards of evidence<\/a>, criminal court<\/a>, or civil court afterwards<\/a>. In a word, disgusting. Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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Chiba prosecutors decide not to indict 10 immigration officers over death of Ghanaian man<\/strong>
\n Mainichi Shimbun July 4, 2012, courtesy of MD<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/english\/newsselect\/news\/20120704p2a00m0na006000c.html<\/a><\/p>\n

CHIBA — The Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office decided on July 3 not to indict 10 officers of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on charges of assault and cruelty resulting in a Ghanaian man’s death when they overpowered him aboard an aircraft.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In deciding to drop the case, the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office said, “There is no causal relationship between the action (by the immigration officers) and the death (of the Ghanaian man), and the action was legitimate.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Chiba Prefectural Police and other sources, Ghanaian national Abubakar Awudu Suraji, who had overstayed his visa, became violent when he was taken aboard a plane for deportation at Narita Airport on March 22, 2010. The 45-year-old man passed out when immigration officials tried to restrain him with handcuffs, towels and other means. He was taken to a hospital at the airport but died shortly thereafter. The cause of his death remained unknown as a legal autopsy showed no noticeable bodily injuries.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The man’s Japanese wife filed a complaint with the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office in June 2010, arguing that “there is a high possibility that (her Ghanaian husband) died from a violent assault while being escorted.” In December 2010, the Chiba Prefectural Police sent papers on the case to the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office.<\/em><\/strong>
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\nOriginal Japanese article<\/p>\n

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Sad news. The Suraj Case, which has been covered in various media reproduced here on Debito.org, has wound up as predicted: With the Immigration officers getting off with no indictment and the GOJ getting away with murder (if not negligence leading to homicide while in official custody). Even the Japan Times called his death “brutal”. It’s bad enough when you have a criminal justice system where even citizens are victims of “hostage justice”. It’s another when you can get away with killing somebody during deportation just because they’re foreign. One more brick in the wall to demonstrate that once the Japanese police get your hands on you as a NJ, you don’t stand a Chinaman’s Chance, be it in Japan’s criminal investigations, incarceration systems, jurisprudence and standards of evidence, criminal court, or civil court afterwards. In a word, disgusting.<\/p>\n

Mainichi: The Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office decided on July 3 not to indict 10 officers of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on charges of assault and cruelty resulting in a Ghanaian man’s death when they overpowered him aboard an aircraft. In deciding to drop the case, the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office said, “There is no causal relationship between the action (by the immigration officers) and the death (of the Ghanaian man), and the action was legitimate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5,37,4,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-human-rights","category-injustice","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}