{"id":6485,"date":"2010-04-14T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2010-04-14T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T23:36:49","slug":"ghanian-dies-while-being-deported-march-22-little-media-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6485","title":{"rendered":"Ghanian dies while being deported March 22, scant media on it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here’s something shocking today. \u00a0I heard about this passim<\/em> from UN Rep Bustamante on March 23 when he was in town asking about migrant worker issues. \u00a0I had heard nothing since then. \u00a0It took a rally the other day for it to make the news. \u00a0Anyone else see anything in the domestic press? \u00a0This sort of thing out to be reported much more widely.\u00a0 Wonder where the investigation into this (if any) is going.\u00a0 Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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50 rally for investigation of deportee’s death
\nCompiled from Kyodo, Staff report
\nThe Japan Times, April 13, 2010, Courtesy of GS<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100413a3.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian who died while being deported from Japan last month and some 50 supporters took to the streets Monday in Tokyo to demand a thorough investigation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Holding a banner that read, “Uncover the truth behind the death of Mr. Suraj during his deportation,” the protesters, including Ghanaians living in Japan, marched through Roppongi shouting “We want justice.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Although a police autopsy on Abubakar Awudu Suraj, 45, reportedly failed to pin down the cause of death and found no traces of violence, his wife and her supporters believe the death was probably caused by immigration officers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The officers accompanied Suraj aboard a flight to Cairo from Narita International Airport on March 22 when he was being deported for illegally staying in Japan.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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According to the police at the airport, Suraj suddenly turned violent aboard the plane, prompting the Japanese officers to restrain him. He then went limp and died…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rest of the article at
\nhttp:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100413a3.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan Times: The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian who died while being deported from Japan last month and some 50 supporters took to the streets Monday in Tokyo to demand a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n

Holding a banner that read, “Uncover the truth behind the death of Mr. Suraj during his deportation,” the protesters, including Ghanaians living in Japan, marched through Roppongi shouting “We want justice.”<\/p>\n

Although a police autopsy on Abubakar Awudu Suraj, 45, reportedly failed to pin down the cause of death and found no traces of violence, his wife and her supporters believe the death was probably caused by immigration officers…<\/p>\n

Asian People’s Friendship Society, a support group that organized Monday’s protest, said on its Web site that the immigration officers put a towel into Suraj’s mouth as they tried to subdue him, and he died shortly afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injustice","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","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=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}