#falseconvictions — Public Fediverse posts
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Japan's Cabinet approved a revised bill that allows prosecutors to appeal a court's retrial order only in exceptional cases, paving the way for the retrial system to be revised for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/15/japan/crime-legal/retrial-cabinet-approval/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #ldp
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Japan's Cabinet approved a revised bill that allows prosecutors to appeal a court's retrial order only in exceptional cases, paving the way for the retrial system to be revised for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/15/japan/crime-legal/retrial-cabinet-approval/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #ldp
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Japan's Cabinet approved a revised bill that allows prosecutors to appeal a court's retrial order only in exceptional cases, paving the way for the retrial system to be revised for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/15/japan/crime-legal/retrial-cabinet-approval/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #ldp
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Japan's Cabinet approved a revised bill that allows prosecutors to appeal a court's retrial order only in exceptional cases, paving the way for the retrial system to be revised for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/15/japan/crime-legal/retrial-cabinet-approval/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #ldp
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A Liberal Democratic Party panel on Wednesday approved a government proposal to ban prosecutors "in principle" from appealing a retrial order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/13/japan/politics/ldp-panel-retrial-approved/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #justiceministry #japanesecourts #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata
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A Liberal Democratic Party panel on Wednesday approved a government proposal to ban prosecutors "in principle" from appealing a retrial order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/13/japan/politics/ldp-panel-retrial-approved/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #justiceministry #japanesecourts #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata
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A Liberal Democratic Party panel on Wednesday approved a government proposal to ban prosecutors "in principle" from appealing a retrial order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/13/japan/politics/ldp-panel-retrial-approved/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #justiceministry #japanesecourts #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata
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A Liberal Democratic Party panel on Wednesday approved a government proposal to ban prosecutors "in principle" from appealing a retrial order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/13/japan/politics/ldp-panel-retrial-approved/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #justiceministry #japanesecourts #diet #falseconvictions #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata
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Social media posts critical of the Justice Ministry's attitude are increasing over content of a draft bill to reform Japan's retrial system, which has drawn severe objections — and even angry outbursts — from lawmakers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/japan/crime-legal/retrial-reform-criticism-online-posts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #socialmedia #tomomiinada
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Social media posts critical of the Justice Ministry's attitude are increasing over content of a draft bill to reform Japan's retrial system, which has drawn severe objections — and even angry outbursts — from lawmakers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/japan/crime-legal/retrial-reform-criticism-online-posts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #socialmedia #tomomiinada
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Social media posts critical of the Justice Ministry's attitude are increasing over content of a draft bill to reform Japan's retrial system, which has drawn severe objections — and even angry outbursts — from lawmakers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/japan/crime-legal/retrial-reform-criticism-online-posts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #socialmedia #tomomiinada
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Social media posts critical of the Justice Ministry's attitude are increasing over content of a draft bill to reform Japan's retrial system, which has drawn severe objections — and even angry outbursts — from lawmakers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/japan/crime-legal/retrial-reform-criticism-online-posts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #socialmedia #tomomiinada
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The Justice Ministry and the Liberal Democratic Party have been at odds over how to revise Japan's retrial system, which has been criticized for procedures that can take decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/22/japan/politics/ldp-ministry-retrial-revision/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #japanesecourts #diet #ldp #justiceministry #shoshimaekawa #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions
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The elder sister of former death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata, 90, who was acquitted in a high-profile retrial, on Saturday criticized the Justice Ministry's bill to reform the nation's retrial system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/18/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-sister-retrial-system-protest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #justiceministry #ldp
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Retrial and wrongful conviction experts have released a joint statement opposing a Japanese government council's controversial proposal to reform the retrial system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-retrial-system-reform-opposition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #justiceministry #falseconvictions #ldp
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In the first such case in recent history, Japan’s top court granted a retrial Tuesday for a deceased man who had been serving a life sentence for committing a murder in Shiga Prefecture in 1984. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/25/japan/crime-legal/retrial-murder-deceased-defendant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shiga #supremecourt #japanesepolice #falseconvictions
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A government panel’s subcommittee has approved the outline of a review of Japan’s retrial system that would continue to allow prosecutors to file appeals against a court’s decision to start a retrial. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-prosecutors-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #justiceministry
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Lawyers for a 98-year-old woman who served a prison term for the 1979 murder of a man in the town of Osaki in Kagoshima Prefecture filed the fifth request for a retrial on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/japan/crime-legal/1979-kagoshima-murder-retrial-plea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #kagoshima #falseconvictions
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Japan's Justice Ministry unveiled a draft plan to revise the retrial system at a meeting of a subgroup of the Legislative Council on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-review-draft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #shizuoka #iwaohakamata
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Lawyers for Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial after being detained for 47 years and seven months, has said they plan to seek around ¥600 million in damages from the central and prefectural governments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-damages-governments/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #shizuoka #falseconvictions #japanesecourts
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The chief of Shiga Prefectural Police department has apologized to a former assistant nurse who was acquitted of murdering a patient in a retrial after serving her prison term. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-apology-false-conviction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #shiga #mikanishiyama #nurses
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A high court ruling that acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over a 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the Japanese city of Fukui has been finalized — 38 years after his arrest. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/crime-legal/shoshi-maekawa-acquittal-finalized/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fukui #falseconvictions
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A Japanese high court branch on Friday acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over the 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the city of Fukui. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/crime-legal/man-acquitted-over-1986-fukui-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fukui #falseconvictions
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A district court ordered the Shiga Prefectural Government to pay about ¥31 million in damages to a former assistant nurse who served a 12-year prison sentence before being acquitted of murdering a patient. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/crime-legal/shiga-nurse-compensation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shiga #japanesecourts #japanesepolice #falseconvictions #hospitals #nurses
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Inappropriate interrogation practices by police and prosecutors continue to be reported in Japan, with cases involving verbal abuse and the use of leading or coercive methods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/inappropriate-interrogation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #japanesecourts #falseconvictions
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A trial challenging Japan's lengthy and grueling detention of criminal suspects has opened in Tokyo, with plaintiffs decrying "subhuman" treatment they say ignores the presumption of innocence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/japan-hostage-justice-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #japanesepolice
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A government advisory panel held its first meeting Monday to review the country's retrial system, following the acquittal of Iwao Hakamata after decades on death row. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/22/japan/crime-legal/panel-meeting-retrial-system/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #japanesecourts
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A government advisory panel will start discussions Monday to review the country's retrial system for criminal cases in which guilty verdicts have become final, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/18/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-review-start/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #japanesecourts #deathpenalty #falseconvictions
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Japan's justice minister has asked a legal panel to review the country's retrial system after the acquittal of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner last year heightened scrutiny of the system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/29/japan/crime-legal/japan-retrial-system-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #iwaohakamata #deathpenalty #falseconvictions #shizuoka #massmurder #japanesepolice
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CW: Amanda Knox and recovery from trauma
A long-form interview of Amanda Kox by Simon Hattenstone.
I never followed the case much in any detail, and I must admit that I probably thought her guilty at the time. Amanda Knox as a very young woman got falsely convicted of murder, much later that judgement was overturmed, then she got re-convicted, and only in one further twist was she finally cleared. Due to the circumstances of the murder, her person became a canvas for all sorts of projections, telling us much about prevalent fantasies and nothing about her. She is now 37, a justice campaigner, and she writes books and makes programmes on her experiences.
Simon Hattenstone has known her for much of this time. This is a thoughtful and empathetic piece about injustice, prison, the painful struggle to reclaim oneself, the slow and ever incomplete recovery from trauma. Worth reading.
#trauma #FalseConvictions #PersonalRecovery #AmandaKnox #SimonHattenstone
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CW: Amanda Knox and recovery from trauma
A long-form interview of Amanda Kox by Simon Hattenstone.
I never followed the case much in any detail, and I must admit that I probably thought her guilty at the time. Amanda Knox as a very young woman got falsely convicted of murder, much later that judgement was overturmed, then she got re-convicted, and only in one further twist was she finally cleared. Due to the circumstances of the murder, her person became a canvas for all sorts of projections, telling us much about prevalent fantasies and nothing about her. She is now 37, a justice campaigner, and she writes books and makes programmes on her experiences.
Simon Hattenstone has known her for much of this time. This is a thoughtful and empathetic piece about injustice, prison, the painful struggle to reclaim oneself, the slow and ever incomplete recovery from trauma. Worth reading.
#trauma #FalseConvictions #PersonalRecovery #AmandaKnox #SimonHattenstone
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CW: Amanda Knox and recovery from trauma
A long-form interview of Amanda Kox by Simon Hattenstone.
I never followed the case much in any detail, and I must admit that I probably thought her guilty at the time. Amanda Knox as a very young woman got falsely convicted of murder, much later that judgement was overturmed, then she got re-convicted, and only in one further twist was she finally cleared. Due to the circumstances of the murder, her person became a canvas for all sorts of projections, telling us much about prevalent fantasies and nothing about her. She is now 37, a justice campaigner, and she writes books and makes programmes on her experiences.
Simon Hattenstone has known her for much of this time. This is a thoughtful and empathetic piece about injustice, prison, the painful struggle to reclaim oneself, the slow and ever incomplete recovery from trauma. Worth reading.
#trauma #FalseConvictions #PersonalRecovery #AmandaKnox #SimonHattenstone
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CW: Amanda Knox and recovery from trauma
A long-form interview of Amanda Kox by Simon Hattenstone.
I never followed the case much in any detail, and I must admit that I probably thought her guilty at the time. Amanda Knox as a very young woman got falsely convicted of murder, much later that judgement was overturmed, then she got re-convicted, and only in one further twist was she finally cleared. Due to the circumstances of the murder, her person became a canvas for all sorts of projections, telling us much about prevalent fantasies and nothing about her. She is now 37, a justice campaigner, and she writes books and makes programmes on her experiences.
Simon Hattenstone has known her for much of this time. This is a thoughtful and empathetic piece about injustice, prison, the painful struggle to reclaim oneself, the slow and ever incomplete recovery from trauma. Worth reading.
#trauma #FalseConvictions #PersonalRecovery #AmandaKnox #SimonHattenstone
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An advisory panel will start discussions later this month to review the country's retrial system for criminal cases, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/14/japan/crime-legal/advisory-panel-review-retrial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #deathpenalty #japanesecourts #justiceministry #falseconvictions
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Iwao Hakamata, acquitted last year in his retrial over a 1966 multiple murder, has demanded that the government pay him compensation of ¥217 million for being unjustly detained for over 47 years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/30/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-compensation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #shizuoka #japanesecourts #falseconvictions
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The head of the Shizuoka District Prosecutors Office, Hideo Yamada, is expected to apologize in person to former boxer Iwao Hakamata, who was recently acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder, over his prolonged court proceedings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/21/japan/crime-legal/japan-prosecutor-to-apologize-to-hakamata/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shizuoka #iwaohakamata #massmurder #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #japanesepolice
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A 59-year-old man who served a prison sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school student in central Japan is set to get a retrial, during which he is expected to be found not guilty. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/29/japan/crime-legal/japan-murder-case-retrial/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #fukui
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The chief of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police on Monday offered an apology in person to Iwao Hakamata at his home in Shizuoka Prefecture following his acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 murder case last month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/21/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-shizuoka-police-apology/ #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #hamamatsu #shizuoka #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #deathpenalty
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Over 70% of people who were acquitted of murder in a retrial in Japan were initially found guilty based on their confessions, a Jiji tally showed Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/13/japan/crime-legal/japan-retrial-acquittal-confessions-guilt/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #japanesepolice
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Nearly 44 years after the original trial, a Shizuoka court ruled Thursday that former pro boxer Iwao Hakamata — the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner — is not guilty of a 1966 quadruple murder charge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/26/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-retrial-ruling/ #japan #crimelegal #shizuoka #iwaohakamata #massmurder #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #japanesepolice
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Iwao Hakamata, who in a rare example is being retried over a 1966 murder case, will be given a verdict on Sept. 26 that could see him finally acquitted more than five decades after he was sentenced to death. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/22/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-retrial-ruling-date/ #japan #crimelegal #shizuoka #iwaohakamata #massmurder #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #japanesepolice
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Shizuoka prosecutors said Monday they will argue in a retrial that convicted murderer Iwao Hakamata is guilty, meaning the expected hearing at the Shizuoka District Court will likely go on for some time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/10/national/crime-legal/hakamata-retrial-prosecutors-guilty/?utm_content=buffer8f24b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #shizuoka #iwaohakamata #massmurder #falseconvictions #japanesecourts
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Prosecutors are preparing to argue for the conviction of former death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata at an upcoming retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder — despite the alleged unreliability of the main evidence used. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/08/national/crime-legal/iwao-hakamata-retrial-prosecutors-seek-conviction/?utm_content=buffer7721b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #shizuoka #iwaohakamata #massmurder #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #japanesepolice