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Japan top court finalizes government damages over Cameroon detainee death

Release Date
2025-02-27
Media
The Mainichi
Summary
Japan's Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings ordering the government to pay 1.65 million yen in damages to the family of a Cameroonian man who died in detention in 2014. However, the court did not acknowledge that immigration staff’s failure to send him to a hospital directly caused his death. The man, detained at the Higashi-Nihon Immigration Center since 2013, had health issues, including diabetes, and claimed he was dying before being found without vital signs. His legal team argued the ruling failed to recognize the causal link and that the low compensation was influenced by discrimination.
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