Niculas Fernando died at a Tokyo immigration detention center sometime between 9:33 a.m. and 10:44 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2014, according to the coroner.
But it wasn¡¯t until shortly after 1 p.m. that day that guards realized something was badly wrong ¡ª even though Fernando had been moved to an observation cell monitored via closed-circuit television after complaining of sharp chest pain.
An inmate had to alert the guards before they rushed into Fernando¡¯s cell and tried to revive him. They found him lying face down on a mattress stained with his urine. He was lifeless.
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