TelePolis ¹ writes about Japanese prisons and capital punishment in Japan. Terrible. They city an AmnestyInternational report ²; reading it is gruesome. Ugh!
According to Ahmed, when he was first detained in the LPF, there were five Chinese detainees who were deported shortly afterwards. He claims that detainees were punished if they complained about conditions.(29) As the rooms were windowless and the door was locked, Ahmed often felt sick when fellow-detainees smoked cigarettes. He did not see the sun or the sky during his entire period of detention in the LPF. There was no consideration of his religious sensitivities as Ahmed, a Muslim, was served meals with pork. He reports that he was on occasion threatened, pushed and shoved by Immigration officers and security staff in the LPF. He was declined permission to shave in the LPF, and had to use the one shirt and pair of trousers that he had brought with him from Pakistan. He was transferred from the LPF to the East Japan Immigration Centre in Ushiku and finally released in December 1997. Shortly after his release in January 1999, he was diagnosed as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). For more than two years after his release, he suffered from lack of sleep, nightmares and acute headaches for which he has had to take medication. He continues to live in Japan after being granted special permission to stay.
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