{"id":3520,"date":"2009-06-13T02:08:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2009-06-13T02:08:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T17:08:55","slug":"tangent-japan-times-on-crackdowns-on-students-at-hosei-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Tangent: Japan Times on crackdowns on students at Hosei University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. I’m in Tokyo now and not really all that accessible online until Sunday night, so let me direct your attention to a pretty nasty thing brewing over at Hosei University. Not a NJ issue per se, but definitely one involving human rights, freedom of speech, and the ability of administrations to arbitrary police, detain, punish, and expel people within its charge. Worth a read. Sorry to be brief for now. Arudou Debito in Tokyo<\/p>\n

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PHOTO: “Outrageous”: Activists claim the photo above shows a student lying unconscious after being roughed up by security guards hired by Hosei University during a rally at its Ichigaya campus. COURTESY OF ZENGAKUREN<\/em>
\nTHE ZEIT GIST
\nRumpus on campus
\nPrestigious university in Tokyo has become a battleground in a war over freedom of political expression
\nBy DAVID McNEILL
\nJapan Times Tuesday, June 9, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Illegal arrests, forced expulsions, “kidnappings” by security police and beatings by hired thugs. No, it’s not another dispatch from a violent banana republic. Those accusations come from the leafy back-streets of Ichigaya, Tokyo, home to a branch campus of the prestigious Hosei University.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosei authorities and a group of students are locked in a poisonous struggle that has turned the campus into something resembling a low-security prison.<\/p>\n

Entrances are guarded by newly installed CCTV cameras and jittery guards equipped with Bluetooth headsets. Notices have been published at many sites naming and shaming “troublemakers” who have been expelled, and the police are on call in case things get out of hand.<\/p>\n

A provisional injunction forbids students from “loitering, putting up banners and making speeches within 200 meters” of the campus.<\/p>\n

Since the dispute began three years ago, 107 students have been arrested and 24 indicted, some of whom awaited trial in detention centers for up to six months. Last Friday, five more students were formally charged with offenses including trespassing and obstructing the police. Another is being kept in detention for at least two more weeks.<\/p>\n

Supporters say some have been framed using a prewar law designed to crush labor protests…<\/p>\n

Rest of the article at<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090609zg.html
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Japan Times: Illegal arrests, forced expulsions, “kidnappings” by security police and beatings by hired thugs. No, it’s not another dispatch from a violent banana republic. Those accusations come from the leafy back-streets of Ichigaya, Tokyo, home to a branch campus of the prestigious Hosei University.<\/p>\n

Student Reiko Goto says she was assaulted during her six-month detention by police after being charged under the prewar Law Concerning Punishment of Physical Violence. DAVID MCNEILL PHOTO
\nHosei authorities and a group of students are locked in a poisonous struggle that has turned the campus into something resembling a low-security prison.<\/p>\n

Entrances are guarded by newly installed CCTV cameras and jittery guards equipped with Bluetooth headsets. Notices have been published at many sites naming and shaming “troublemakers” who have been expelled, and the police are on call in case things get out of hand.<\/p>\n

A provisional injunction forbids students from “loitering, putting up banners and making speeches within 200 meters” of the campus.<\/p>\n

Since the dispute began three years ago, 107 students have been arrested and 24 indicted, some of whom awaited trial in detention centers for up to six months. Last Friday, five more students were formally charged with offenses including trespassing and obstructing the police. Another is being kept in detention for at least two more weeks.<\/p>\n

Supporters say some have been framed using a prewar law designed to crush labor protests…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","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=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}