{"id":112648,"date":"2021-03-15T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112648"},"modified":"2021-03-15T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:15:47","slug":"sri-lankan-woman-dies-of-emaciation-in-japanese-immigration-detention-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/15\/sri-lankan-woman-dies-of-emaciation-in-japanese-immigration-detention-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan woman dies of emaciation in Japanese immigration detention facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman being detained by immigration authorities in Japan died of emaciation on March 6, after requesting provisional release and expressing a desperate desire for food in notes and letters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I truly want to eat now,\u201d she wrote in hiragana in a note while under detention at a facility operated by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan\u2019s Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility houses foreigners who have overstayed their visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a group supporting foreigners, START, the woman became unable to eat and walk due to the extreme stress and deteriorating health she suffered while under custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman\u2019s health condition was so dire, she brought a bucket to vomit in if needing to do so when START members visited her at the facility, according to the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A copy of a document submitted to immigration authorities in December showed that she was requesting provisional release as immigration officials denied her access to medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to go to a hospital to receive an intravenous drip, but immigration authorities would not take me,\u201d she said in the document.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the woman\u2019s death, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa, who has oversight of the agency, said on March 9 that the ministry is investigating the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She reportedly saw doctors at an agency clinic and an outside hospital,\u201d she said. We are trying to confirm the facts, including the cause of her death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana A 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman being detained by immigration authorities in Japan died of emaciation on March 6, after requesting provisional release and expressing a desperate desire for food in notes and letters.&nbsp; I truly want to eat now,\u201d she wrote in hiragana in a note while under detention at a facility operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}