TOKYO, Sept. 22, 2021—Hurray to a Japanaese Court for overcoming the bureaucracy seniority: On Sept. 22, 2021, the Tokyo District Court’s justice Yutaka Hirata upheld two Sri Lankan refugees’ claims for the right to sue the Japanese government for failing to give them the right for fair court proceedings against the immigration office’s forced deportation.
It was the first such case on forceful deportation of foreign nationals, many of them seeking asylum in Japan yet having been deported to their homelands or third host countries without having their cases heard by court.
In December 2014, the two Sri Lankan nations visited the Tokyo immigration detention center in order to seek temporary restraint order at detention facilities. Their pleas were denied and they were immediately detained and thrown back into the facilities.
The two nationals filed petitions for dispute to be taken up in court in December 2014 but were deported from Haneda International Airport.
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