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In this blog, I, Kashiwazaki (SYI), will provide you with the info about the Campaign "Free Claudio PEÑA". Pena is an undocumented Chilean immigrant and asylum applicant in Japan who is currently detained in East Japan Immigration Center. I ask you for donations for legal fee in order to help Pena out of immigration detention
Free Claudio PEÑA
(First Campaign: March 25 - April 30, 2020) Ended on May 1.
Self Portrait of Young Pena
Pena had been worked for a long time in Japan as a cook since 1996. However, he lost the place to work in the aftermath of the Great Earthquake in 2011. Because of that, the Immigration did not allow him the extension of the period of residence, and subsequently put him in custody. He was released in 2013 but put under immigration detention again in October 2017.
Living in Japan so many years, Pena has hardly any hope of re-establishing his life in Chile. He also has a health problem which makes the enforcement of deportation highly dangerous for his life. Moreover, the political changes in Chile has created the concern of his becoming a target of persecution. Therefore, it is impossible for Pena to accept deportation order in spite of the long-term detention, which already amounts to two years and six months.
Pena tries to report to the public the problems of immigration detention in Japan by his drawings, the part of which are (or will be) uploaded in this blog. He is so a kind person who, in spite of his own hardship, supports other detainees by sharing his possessions, negotiating with immigration officers in behalf of them, and so on.
However, Pena has an obstacle to solving his own problem. He needs a lawyer (attorney at law) who works for him in order to get the permission of provisional release (kari-homen), but he can neither afford it nor makes use of legal aid. Therefore, I ask you for donations for legal fee in order to help Pena out of immigration detention.
March 25, 2020
Kashiwazaki, Masanori, SYI (Syuyosha Yujin-yushi Ichido: Immigration Detainees Friends).
Phone 080 8844 7318
