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Japan: ‘Endless detention’: Migrants speak out as government proposes harsh immigration bill
Forward of the Japanese government’s most up-to-date try to push by way of repressive laws that will reinforce its powers to detain migrants indefinitely, asylum seekers and others have spoken out about the inherent cruelty of the country’s immigration process. Far more than 30 migrants and asylum seekers interviewed for a new piece of Amnesty Intercontinental analysis, some of whom have been held for a number of decades, reported harsh immigration detention ailments and procedures had driven some detainees to undertake starvation strikes and even attempt suicide. Their tales appear as Japan’s parliament considers a new modification to the refugee and immigration legislation that would undermine migrant rights. “Migrants have…
