Friday, April 21, 2023

Kurdish asylum seeker awarded damages for immigration facility assault

Japan’s government is being ordered to pay damages to a Kurdish asylum seeker who claimed he was assaulted at an immigrant detention centre.


A Tokyo court has ruled staff acted illegally when they forcibly restrained the man in 2019.


Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo. 


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