{"id":113557,"date":"2021-04-16T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113557"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:06:41","slug":"sri-lankan-mother-seeks-truth-behind-daughters-death-at-japan-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/16\/sri-lankan-mother-seeks-truth-behind-daughters-death-at-japan-detention-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Mother Seeks Truth Behind Daughter&#8217;s Death at Japan Detention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jiji Press<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;Tokyo, April 16 (Jiji Press)&#8211;The mother of a Sri Lankan woman who last month died at a detention facility in central Japan run by the Immigration Services Agency demanded Friday that the authorities tell the whole truth about her death.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The deceased woman was Wishma Sandamali, 33, according to a support group.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Meeting the press from her home in Sri Lanka, Wishma&#8217;s mother, Sriyalatha, 53, teared up while saying that her daughter had been kind and liked living in Japan.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She then urged the Japanese authorities to give full explanations about why Wishma became ill at the facility in Nagoya and why she died there.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to an interim report released by the agency, Wishma was taken to the detention center in August last year for illegal overstaying her visa.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiji Press &nbsp;&nbsp;Tokyo, April 16 (Jiji Press)&#8211;The mother of a Sri Lankan woman who last month died at a detention facility in central Japan run by the Immigration Services Agency demanded Friday that the authorities tell the whole truth about her death.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The deceased woman was Wishma Sandamali, 33, according to a support group.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Meeting the press [&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-113557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113557","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=113557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}