The Immigration Services Agency announced Tuesday a set of measures to prevent the recurrence of deaths from detention center hunger strikes and called on an expert panel to study how it can expedite often prolonged deportation procedures.
The proposals from the agency include improving counseling to persuade hunger strikers to eat, forced medical treatment and information sharing and monitoring by detention workers.
The agency compiled those measures after a Nigerian man in his 40s died on June 24 following a hunger strike at a detention center in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture.