By REI KISHITSU/ Staff Writer
March 15, 2021 at 13:35 JST
Letters and illustrations written and drawn by a Sri Lankan woman who died of emaciation on March 6 at a detention facility with the Immigration Services Agency of Japan's Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau. Parts of the images were modified. (Rei Kishitsu)
NAGOYA--A 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman being detained by immigration authorities here died of emaciation on March 6, after requesting provisional release and expressing a desperate desire for food in notes and letters. [Read More]
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