Vishmasan Damali: A Sri Lankan National Who Died in Custody

Vishmasan Damali was a 33-year-old Sri Lankan national who died in custody while being detained at an immigration center in Nagoya. Vishmasan came to Japan with the hopes of becoming an English teacher and she was attending a Japanese language school when she seemingly got involved with an abusive boyfriend. She stopped attending the school and was expelled actually at the end. Now she did see doctors at a center who recommended she be hospitalized, but reports say that immigration officials were worried that she would try to escape.