THE ZEIT GIST (JAPAN TIMES) October 5, 2010See video herehttp://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20101005zg.html RELEATED: Please see this story from Japan Indymedia from last MarchDecade-long wait takes toll on asylum seeker Periods in detention, 10 years in legal limbo leave Iranian with mental, physical scars By SIMON SCOTT Most foreigners in Japan know the … [Read more...] about Japan treats refugee/asylum seekers like criminals, puts them in solitary confinement like mad dogs
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Foreigners stage a sit-in outside Diet to protest immigration bills
JUNE 3About 20 foreign workers [including members of NUGW Tokyo Nambu] and their supporters staged a sit-in Tuesday in front of the Diet to demand that bills to revise the immigration law be scrapped.The bills, now before the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee, would put a greater burden on foreign workers and violate their rights, participants at the sit-in argued.“The … [Read more...] about Foreigners stage a sit-in outside Diet to protest immigration bills