Japan top court rejects Kurdish asylum seeker's appeal in abuse case

the Tokyo District Court ruled some actions of the staff at the immigration center were illegal

Illegal behavior by Japan’s immigration-center staff is just WRONG!

Deniz, who declined to give his surname for fear of retaliation against his family in Turkey,

Was he permitted to stay?

2017! That is a long time for the decision to come through. What has he been doing all this time?

disgusting behavior by the officials.

 forcibly pushed their thumb under the man's chin and when his arms were pulled up while handcuffed behind his back.

Is this Japanese Judo trick?

Many of the Kurdish people living in Japan are not asylum seekers escaping persecution back home in Turkey. They came here for better opportunities and better pay. The local residents are fed up with their bad behavior including robbery and rape. Deniz must have been an exceptionally unruly detainee. Just round them up and deport them.

Japan is not for opportunistic and fake asylum seekers..

Deport!!..

Some of them are troublemakers feeling entitled where they stayed in Japan community they should be deported anyway.

Why Japan? Completely different diet, culture, religion, dress, language everything... They are economic migrants and many Japanese in Warabi think they have long exceeded their welcome.

Why Japan? Completely different diet, culture, religion, dress, language everything..

It is not a surprising choice, people are running away from a situation of violence and persecution, a completely different environment in a peaceful country can be seen as very desirable, specially for people that don't consider the effort to adapt to that different environment worth it. Geographical or cultural closeness are not the only thing asylum seekers are interested about.

Individual cases of course should be judged according to their circumstances, but in general it is not an irrational choice.

So this person was treated badly by the government officials physically. in some countries this might even be called torture. Lower court acknowledged that and ordered government to pay him fine. Upper court acknowledged that except the demand for a higher fine.

Even the japanese government is accepting their fault.

But if you read the comments, you can see some foreigners not only go against the court decision, they actually want him to be deported. Imagine being a foreigner and yet having a more nationalistic view than japanese nationalists themselves.

Based on the comments and the story, I rather be neighbour with that Kurdish man instead of those hateful-japanese-nationalist-wanna-be-out-of-place foreigners.

Of course they did. lol. The police and courts work together just like Japanese to ensure anything to do with foreigners the foreigner will lose. 30 plus years in Japan. Even know dentist who messed up a foreigners mouth and then foreigner sued and got nothing. It’s all setup to ensure Japanese do no wrong.

He should have known higher. Courts would not allow Japanese pay a foreigner compensation. The amount of refugees the goverment allow is shameful and shows the racist behavior of the government really to foreigners.

record tourism now right But what data is there on “they will return in the future” same goes with schooling etc. Of my class of 90 I’m the only one here. The rest mostly vowed never to after the experience and the racism they encounter have Chinese friends who have visited saying just that

racism has always been here. And the police and courts are setup to protect the system. This shouldn’t be a surprise.

But glad he got 200k that is more than most and well I expect his lawyers fees to have taken that and more up

gsa

well said.

GSA...on the button...commentors here are unbelievable in their narrow mindedness

This is Japan. Japanese culture, law and norms apply to all here. No exceptions.

So, was the guys asylum claim accepted or not? This hasn’t been explained. 8 years is kinda taking the proverbial ……….! Terrible behavior by immigration but I’m not sure it’s worth 11 million. Something for sure, but not 11 freaking million. That was the starting point.

Japan is not a suing or litigation country. Lawyers are expensive and are paid even when losing. You have to pay your legal costs even when you win. The plaintiff was awarded ¥220,000 by the lower courts. The lawyer fees would have been higher than that. Many try to settle outside of the court by arbitration.

It is not a surprising choice, people are running away from a situation of violence and persecution,

Very few are running from persecution, though some are running from terrorist charges.

Nothing wrong

Why Japan has to accept Kurdish refugees?