Japan Times 2010\u5e744\u670821\u65e5\u3088\u308a\u629c\u7c8b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday, April 21, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wife presses for details in death of deportee<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By MINORU MATSUTANI
Staff writer
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\n\n\n
\u201cI want the government to unveil the truth as soon as possible to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents,\u201d the wife of the deceased man, Abubakar Awudu Suraj, told journalists at the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club of Japan in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The FCCJ agreed not to reveal the wife\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police said Suraj was confirmed dead in a hospital March 22 after an undisclosed number of immigration officers overpowered him when he became violent in an airplane before it departed Narita International Airport that day for Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wife\u2019s lawyer, Koichi Kodama, questioned the police investigation, which has not resulted in any arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf a man died after five or six civilians, not public servants, held his limbs, they would undoubtedly be arrested,\u201d Kodama said, adding he told \u201cexactly that to the prosecutors\u201d he met with Monday in Chiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n
Suraj\u2019s wife is considering suing the government, but she and Kodama are holding off pending further evidence of malpractice by immigration officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLawyers have no authority to collect evidence, and thus we have to wait for police to disclose evidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Mayumi Yoshida, the assistant general secretary of Asian People\u2019s Friendship Society, she and Suraj\u2019s wife went to the Justice Ministry, which oversees the Immigration Bureau, on March 25 to ask the ministry for details of how Suraj died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yoshida quoted a ministry official as saying immigration officers \u201cseem to have used a towel for (Suraj\u2019s) mouth and a handcuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat is all we know\u201d about how Suraj died, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suraj came to Japan on a temporary visa, which expired in 15 days, in May 1988, according to Yoshida. He was arrested on suspicion of staying illegally in September 2006, and received a deportation order in November that year. The same month, his wife registered their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s ruling on grounds the couple was childless and the wife was economically independent, Yoshida said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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