The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered a private security firm, its president and three employees to pay a combined 1.1 million yen to each of two Tunisian men over physical abuse the latter suffered in 2000 when they were held at an immigration facility.
According to the ruling, cousins Mouez Thameur, 26, and Hichem Thameur, 24, both students at the time, arrived in Japan for a holiday on June 20, 2000, but were refused entry by immigration officials at Narita International Airport.
While being held for deportation, they were beaten and kicked by Hiroyuki Kawase, Akira Shimagaki and Yuji Hirasawa, security guards at I'm Co., a private security company employed at the time by most of the airlines to handle deportees.