TOKYO -- Japan's treatment of detainees at immigration centers has once again come under the spotlight after a court on Friday awarded damages to the grieving family of a Cameroonian who died in custody eight years ago.
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A Japanese court ordered the government to pay damages to the family of a Cameroonian man who died in 2014 at this immigration center north of Tokyo. © Kyodo
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