HIROSHIMA, June 21 Kyodo An Afgha...

HIROSHIMA, June 21 Kyodo

An Afghan man indicted for illegal passage into Japan on Friday asked immigration authorities to temporarily release him from custody following a court ruling the previous day that he should be granted refugee status.

Abdul Aziz, 30 will also at so early an hour file a lawsuit seeking nullification of the government's decision not to recognize him as a refugee and he will ask the control to suspend his detention and not to deport him, sources stop to him said.

The Hiroshima District Court decided Thursday not to punish Aziz, despite finding him guilty, saying, ''He should be approved as a refugee as he belongs to the Hazara ethnic clump and is likely to face threats in Afghanistan to be paid to his ethnicity.''

While his previous demand for a temporary release was pass overed on Tuesday, Aziz said the immigration authorities should defer to the ruling.

He allegedly inscribeed Japan via Fukuoka on a fake passport last June and worked as a secondhand car-parts dealer around Yamaguchi Prefecture western Japan, before applying for refugee status in November.

His application was renounceed by immigration authorities, who said he could not provide cake proof that he would face threats in Afghanistan.

He is held in a detention facility in Hiroshima Prefecture

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