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A man in his 20s who was being held in a police detention center in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, has died after apparently hanging himself.
According to Gunma prefectural police, the man was found hanging in his solitary cell at around 6:50 a.m. Thursday by a guard making his rounds, Sankei Shimbun reported. A doctor was called and the prisoner was declared dead at the scene.
Police said the man used a thin cord which he attached to the toilet door, to hang himself. They have not released the man’s name, nor on what charge he was being detained, citing their wish to protect the privacy of the man’s family.
© Japan Today
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sakurasuki
Another person died during detention in same month in Japan?
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/update1-israeli-charged-with-smuggling-drugs-into-japan-dies-in-detention
Gaijinjland
Read between the lines. It was police detention. Not immigration. Guy was Japanese
Alan Harrison
Held in a solitary cell. (For how long I dread to imagine). More police torture in Japan.
Rodney
21007 people committed suicide last year. Putting somebody in solitary confinement in a time of stress, what could possibly go wrong?
sakurasuki
No need to read between the lines just read actual lines, that Israel person that died few weeks ago, he was a Japanese resident and being detained by law enforcement in Japan not by immigration at point of entry, that happened he was importing illegal item.
So none of them died in immigration detention and nobody said immigration until you did.
jeancolmar
Police or immigration cells, Japanese of foreigners: two deaths of arrestees in solitary in a short time are two deaths too much.
wallace
Prisoners are often kept in single cells which isn't the same as a solitary ones. Solidary cells have no toilet doors.
diagonalslip
....nor, it seems, how come he was in possession of a length of cord long enough and strong enough....
John
It’s not a suicide so no need to argue about solitary cells
sir_bentley28
WoW! Dude would rather die than deal with the torture of long interrogations, lack of sleep, dehumanization and who knows what else.
Mirai Hayashi
totally what I was thinking!! I smell a fish here. I think this guy was given the cord. Perhaps he was someone who knew something about a prominent figure. Suicide or strangulation??