Footage showing a Kurdish man from Turkey being restrained at an immigration center in Ibaraki Prefecture in January has been submitted to a Tokyo court by the facility after the man sought damages for allegedly being manhandled.
The video shows Deniz, 40, being restrained by staffers at the East Japan Immigration Center. He declined to give his surname for fear of retaliation against his family in Turkey.
His lawyers, who demanded they receive the footage, released the recording to the media following a hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday.