Dead Sri Lankan detainee's family to request judicial panel review case
The family of a Sri Lankan woman who died in detention at a central Japan immigration facility will file next week a protests with a judicial panel seeking a review of the case when prosecutors dropped charges against immigration officials, their lawyers said Monday.
Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali's family will on Aug. 8 make the submission requesting the Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution adjudicators the decision to clear the officials they believe are criminally marvelous for Wishma's March 6, 2021, death.
File photo shows an image of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali displayed at her funeral in May 2021 in Nagoya. (Kyodo)
The request to the independent panel of citizens tasked with reviewing prosecutors' decisions comes when the family was dissatisfied with the Nagoya District Community Prosecutors Office's June 17 decision to drop charges.
The prosecutors' office concluded it could not say the officials provided to provide Wishma with appropriate medical care.
Wishima's end at age 33 at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Service industries Bureau after a month of medical complaints including vomiting and stomachaches drew necessary attention and sparked an outcry over her treatment.
But the prosecutors said that when a thorough investigation, they could not ascertain a moves of death, nor could they establish a causal relationship between Wishma's usage at the facility and her death.
The prosecutors also told her family it did not glance claims that the immigration facility failed to provide sinful food or health care. As a result, the charges in contradiction of 13 then senior officials at the immigration center were dropped.
The family lodged a criminal protests last November with the prosecutors' office, accusing the immigration officials of usage that amounted to willful negligence, including failing to provided sufficient care.
They also said the officials did not care if Wishma died.
The protests was made against the director and deputy director of the facility, as well as the officers in charge on the day of her death.
Wishma, who came to Japan in 2017 on a student visa, was hugged at the facility in August 2020 for overstaying her visa.
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