{"id":6572,"date":"2010-04-21T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2010-04-21T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:58:45","slug":"japan-times-on-suraj-case-wife-of-ghanian-who-died-while-being-deported-demands-info-on-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6572","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times on Suraj Case: Wife of Ghanian who died while being deported demands info on cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 As I reported last week, the FCCJ had a press conference yesterday on the Suraj Case<\/a>, where a Ghanian man died while being deported last March.\u00a0 Details on the cause of death are unclear, but Immigration acknowledges that handcuffs were used, and a towel in Suraj’s mouth were involved.<\/p>\n

What I find noteworthy is not only the circumstances (which allegedly, according to the Suraj group press release, involves other NJ deaths in Immigration custody<\/a>), but also the courts’ reasoning when overruling a stay of deportation:
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\nJapan Times: “In February 2008, the Tokyo District Court ruled the deportation order be waived. But in March 2009, the Tokyo High Court repealed the district court’s ruling on grounds the couple was childless and the wife was economically independent…”<\/em><\/strong>
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So if they had children and she was a dependent housewife, then he could have stayed in Japan?\u00a0 Their marriage counts for nothing otherwise?\u00a0 Not sure I get it.<\/p>\n

Article follows. Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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\nThe Japan Times Wednesday, April 21, 2010
\nWife presses for details in death of deportee (excerpt)
\nBy MINORU MATSUTANI Staff writer<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100421a4.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian who died last month while he was being deported for overstaying his visa called Tuesday on police and the Immigration Bureau to disclose exactly how he died…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The wife’s lawyer, Koichi Kodama, questioned the police investigation, which has not resulted in any arrests.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“If a man died after five or six civilians, not public servants, held his limbs, they would undoubtedly be arrested,” Kodama said, adding he told “exactly that to the prosecutors” he met with Monday in Chiba.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chiba police are questioning about 10 immigration officers and crew of Egypt Air, Kodama quoted a Chiba prosecutor as saying. Police said March 25 the cause of death was unclear after an autopsy. Kodama said a more thorough autopsy is being performed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Suraj’s wife is considering suing the government, but she and Kodama are holding off pending further evidence of malpractice by immigration officers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Lawyers have no authority to collect evidence, and thus we have to wait for police to disclose evidence,” he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest of the article at http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100421a4.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan Times: The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian who died last month while he was being deported for overstaying his visa called Tuesday on police and the Immigration Bureau to disclose exactly how he died…<\/p>\n

The wife’s lawyer, Koichi Kodama, questioned the police investigation, which has not resulted in any arrests.<\/p>\n

“If a man died after five or six civilians, not public servants, held his limbs, they would undoubtedly be arrested,” Kodama said, adding he told “exactly that to the prosecutors” he met with Monday in Chiba.<\/p>\n

The Chiba police are questioning about 10 immigration officers and crew of Egypt Air, Kodama quoted a Chiba prosecutor as saying. Police said March 25 the cause of death was unclear after an autopsy. Kodama said a more thorough autopsy is being performed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","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=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}