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Immigration inmates live life of limbo, at officials' whim

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Abubakar Awudu Suraj spent 20 months in an Immigration Bureau detention center before being manhandled onto a jetliner at Narita airport for deportation back to Ghana in March 2010. He died in handcuffs on the plane. Immigration authorities allegedly used "excessive force" to restrain him.

Authorities have a right to hold foreigners, like Suraj, who violate immigration law. And what happens to them once they are locked up is for many a mystery. Any foreign national who violates the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law can be locked up, including visa overstayers, illegal entrants and asylum-seekers lacking legal status. (Japan Times)


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