{"id":1659,"date":"2008-05-16T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2008-05-16T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T06:12:20","slug":"japan-today-court-acquits-nj-suspect-yet-still-detained-for-overstaying-his-visa-due-to-denial-of-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Japan Today: NJ suspect acquitted by J Court, yet still detained–for overstaying his visa due to denial of bail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. Here’s another way to make sure you perpetually incarcerate any NJ suspected of any crime. Even if they’ve been acquitted in court, just keep them in detention (after all, NJ aren’t allowed bail in Japan) long enough, and then you can get them for overstaying their visa! “Hostage Justice’s”<\/a> safety catch for NJ only. Comment from contributor Mark Mino-Thompson and then article follows. Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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\nCOMMENT FROM MARK MT:
\nSeems the British Govt. has more pull here than the Swiss. Same situation as before, yet this time around the court releases a man acquitted of suspected drug smuggling,<\/a> despite prosecutors wanting him detained until they appeal. Of course, he still hasn’t been freed; he’s in a gaijin tank waiting to be deported, despite the sole reason of his “overstay” was due to being in the custody of Japanese police.<\/i> <\/p>\n

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Court rejects prosecution request to detain Briton after acquittal
\nJapan Today\/Kyodo News Friday 16th May, 07:15 AM JST
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TOKYO –The Tokyo High Court rejected Thursday a request by prosecutors to detain a 54-year-old British man who has been acquitted by a district court of the charge of smuggling cannabis from South Africa into Japan. The court decided that \u2018\u2018after reviewing the grounds for and records of the ruling, detention is unwarranted.\u2019\u2019 The Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office had sought the man\u2019s detention to prevent him from being deported from Japan before appeal court proceedings can begin.<\/p>\n

The man is being held by the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau for overstaying his legally permitted period in Japan. He was arrested in August last year on suspicion of carrying a suitcase containing about 9.7 kilograms of cannabis at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, after arriving from South Africa. On May 1, the Chiba District Court acquitted him, saying there remains reasonable doubt about whether he intentionally brought in a suitcase containing cannabis.
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Here\u2019s another way to make sure you perpetually incarcerate any NJ suspected of any crime. Even if they\u2019ve even been acquitted in court, just keep them in detention (after all, NJ aren\u2019t allowed bail in Japan) long enough, and then you can get them for overstaying their visa! \u201cHostage Justice\u2019s\u201d safety catch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injustice","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}