• Yasemin Colak, the wife of Kurdish detainee Mehmet Colak, tries to see what's happening inside the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward after an ambulance crew entered the building to check on her husband's condition on the evening of March 12. | CHISATO TANAKA
    Yasemin Colak, the wife of Kurdish detainee Mehmet Colak, tries to see what's happening inside the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward after an ambulance crew entered the building to check on her husband's condition on the evening of March 12. | CHISATO TANAKA
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It had the appearance of a scandal in the making.

On March 12, a late-night scuffle broke out at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, causing an outcry over the alleged “inhumane” treatment of a person being held there.

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