Japan gov't ordered to pay damages to Kurdish asylum seeker

A Tokyo court on Thursday ordered the Japanese government to pay 220,000 yen ($1,600) in damages to a Kurdish man who alleged he was assaulted when staff at a detention center where he was being held in 2019 forcibly restrained him.The Tokyo District Court ruled some actions of the staff at the immigration center in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, were illegal, including when someone forcibly pushed their thumb under his chin and when his arms were pulled up while handcuffed behind his back."They were illegal, as such actions exceeded what was deemed reasonably necessary," Presiding…READ FULL ARTICLE