A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
A Japanese police chief has apologized to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering because of a wrongful conviction that ...
Human Rights Watch21h
Inquiry Needed into Japan’s Flawed Criminal Justice System
Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...
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World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Is Acquitted 58 Years After Arrest
The man believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted 58 years after being arrested and ...
Japanese police chief bows to wrongfully convicted man who spent 45 years on death row
Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief Takayoshi Tsuda bowed deeply before Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, to ...
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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
HAMAMATSU, Japan — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are ...
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Japan police apologize to world’s longest-serving death row inmate
Hakamata is recognized as the world’s longest-serving death row inmate (46 years). Tsuda’s apology marks the first such ...
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Japan Prosecutors Say They Won't Appeal Hakamada Death Row Acquittal
He is the fifth death row inmate granted a retrial in Japan's post-war history. All four previous cases also resulted in exonerations. Decades of detention, mostly in solitary confinement with the ...
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A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
TOKYO — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had ...
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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on ...
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Japan Prosecutors Won't Appeal Hakamada Death Row Acquittal
He is the fifth death row inmate granted a retrial in Japan's post-war history. All four previous cases also resulted in exonerations. Decades of detention, mostly in solitary confinement with the ...