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| Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali's younger sister Wayomi speaks to reporters at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Sept. 23, 2021. (Photo by= Kyodo) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] TOKYO: One of the sisters of a Sri Lankan woman who died in March following mistreatment at a Japanese detention facility has called on the immigration agency to accept responsibility for her sibling's death as she left Japan, Kyodo reported.
The family members of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, 33, have been demanding that the immigration agency disclose two weeks' worth of security camera footage of her final days and clarify the cause of death, but their requests have not been granted. "I will return (to my country) temporarily, but not because I have given up. I want the immigration authorities to accept their responsibility and prevent the same thing from happening again to other foreigners," Wishma's younger sister Wayomi, 29, told reporters at Narita airport near Tokyo on Thursday.
Wayomi said she decided to leave Japan as she has been "mentally distressed" after seeing half of a two-hour edited version of the footage showing how her sister was treated at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in central Japan. She also said she was worried about the worsening health of her mother in Sri Lanka. Wishma's other younger sister, Poornima, will remain in Japan and continue to urge the agency to fully disclose the footage.
