Guards at the East Japan Immigration Center stand inside a processing room at the center in Ushiku, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, on March 19, 2015. (Reuters file photo)TOKYO - A Vietnamese man held in a Japanese immigration detention centre died on Saturday, six people told Reuters, drawing fresh attention to conditions in the country's detention system. The man died at the East Japan Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, according to activists, a lawyer and a detainee held at the facility. The center and the Justice Ministry, which oversees immigration facilities, could not be reached for comment on Sunday. Since 2006, at least dozen people have died while in immigration detention, including four cases of suicide.

Source: Bangkok Post March 26, 2017 06:11 UTC