2019: Japan’s Coercive Police Practices
Quelle: https://apjjf.org/2019/19/APJreport.html
3.10.2019
Mit freundlicher Erlaubnis von Japan Focus
Ghosn, Yamashiro and the United Nations -- Japan’s Coercive Police Practices in the International Spotlight
Asia-Pacific Journal Report
In an effort to combat abuse of police powers by the world’s most repressive regimes, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a “Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment” at a plenary meeting on December 9, 1988. Among other things, these rules declare that “A detained or imprisoned person shall have the right to be visited by and to correspond with, in particular, members of his family and shall be given adequate opportunity to communicate with the outside world, subject to reasonable conditions and restrictions as specified by law or lawful regulations.”1 Three years later the UN Commisssion on Human Rights created a five member “Working Group” charged with investigating “cases of detention imposed arbitrarily or otherwise inconsistently with the relevant international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” or in treaties or other international agreements.2
The detention and prosecution of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn have brought international attention to the severe treatment of individuals held in police detention in Japan.3 In recent years ....