Special Report: Death, drugs and detention in Japan’s immigration system
By Minami Funakoshi, Thomas Wilson, Ami Miyazaki and Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) – In the 13 months before Niculas Fernando died in a Japanese immigration detention center in 2014, three other men suffered the same fate. • Anwar Hussin, 57, a Rohingya from Myanmar, died on Oct. 14, 2013, after suffering a stroke while being held at the same detention center as Fernando. • Saeid Ghadimi, a 33-year-old Iranian, choked on food and died on March 29, 2014, at the East Japan Immigration Detention Center in Ibaraki prefecture, a sprawling complex set among rice paddies northeast of Tokyo.
