[SIZE="2"]Rapid-deportation policy draws flak[/SIZE]
Aahi.com, 02/02/2006
When two Kurdish teenagers in Saitama Prefecture were turned down for
refugee status in late January, they hoped to take their cases to
court--a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Instead, that same day, they were given two plane tickets, taken to
the airport and put onto a flight to Turkey. Officials threatened to
tie them up if they resisted.
The case is the second confirmed instance of the controversial new
rapid-deportation policy of the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau...more...