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Carlos and Carole Ghosn: Inhumane Prison Conditions?
Carlos Ghosn, the wife of detained car repairman in Japan, denounced the conditions of detention in a letter to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Her husband is sitting in an unheated seven-square-foot cell and has lost more than seven kilograms of weight since his arrest, Carole Ghosn wrote in the nine-page letter published Monday. The cell burned at night, the light his daily necessary medication would be denied him.
Every day, her husband is also interviewed for hours without his lawyers being there. “The investigators question him, press him, lecture him, and insult him without the presence of his lawyers to extract a confession from him,” the letter said. Investigators have submitted to Ghosn documents in Japanese for which he does not speak and have only provided him with an oral translation.
“I ask Human Rights Watch to take this case,” wrote Carole Ghosn. The human rights organization must also work to ensure that the Japanese government reforms the current “draconian pre-trial detention and pre-trial interrogation system”.
Human rights group Asia director Brad Adams recently said in the online edition of The Diplomat that Ghosn should not receive preferential treatment. “But if Japan wants to live up to its reputation as one of the world’s most advanced democracies, it needs to modernize the criminal justice system,” he added.
Ghosn’s lawyer knows nothing of inhumane conditions of detention
Ghosn, boss of the French car manufacturer Renault Show stock market chart and former chairman of the board of Japanese carmaker Nissan Show stock market chart, is sitting since 19 November in Japan in custody. Investigators filed an official indictment on December 10 and added to it last Friday. They accuse the 64-year-old, in the years 2010 to 2018 to have declared a low income at the car maker Nissan, where he was also long CEO. In addition, he is personally enriched with company capital and have their own losses passed on Nissan. Ghosn face up to 15 years imprisonment,
Ghosn denies all allegations. His application for release was rejected. The court justified this with danger of flight. He is expected to remain in detention until the trial starts in early March. Therefore, the Japanese judicial system has already been criticized internationally. The investigators can detain a suspect for months.
After all, Ghosn can now receive a visit from family members after a court decision last week. His chief prosecutor Motonari Otsuru denied last week that Ghosn was forced to sign documents or even a confession in Japanese. According to him, Ghosn was also moved to a larger cell. His client did not complain about the conditions of detention.
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Since Ghosn was arrested, the car alliance of Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi staggers. The manager was the driving force behind the Alliance. He said he was “illegally charged”.
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