TOKYO, April 7 (Xinhua) — Security digital camera footage displaying a Sri Lankan lady complaining of declining well being earlier than her dying in an immigration facility in central Japan has been publicly launched for the primary time by attorneys representing her household.
Roughly seven minutes of a five-hour video taken of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, who died on the age of 33 whereas being held on the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in March 2021, was proven at a press convention in Tokyo on Thursday.
Some of the launched footage taken lower than two weeks earlier than her dying reveals that Wishma, bedridden, begged officers to take her to hospital after telling them she is unable to maneuver or eat.
Wishma arrived in Japan in 2017 as a scholar however was taken into custody on the immigration facility in August 2020 for overstaying her visa.
Wishma’s household is in search of damages from the Japanese authorities over her dying, alleging she was illegally detained and died attributable to a scarcity of essential medical care.