Umemura loses Diet committee seat in row over dead detainee

Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) sacked a lawmaker from the Upper House Committee on Judicial Affairs after she came under fire for suggesting a Sri Lankan woman who died in an immigration detention center might have faked her illness.

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