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Actions and protests
Banners
Court cases
Day
Greenpeace activists
Japanese Government
Journalism
Journalists
KWCI (GPI)
Large group of people
Law
Oceans (campaign title)
Outdoors
Tokyo Two (campaign title)
Whaling
Tokyo Two Trial Verdict in Aomori
Greenpeace Japan staff hold banners outside the Aomori Court with a message reading "wrongful conviction" in response to the verdict handed to their two activists Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato in their trial for trespass and theft of a box of whale meat. They received a one year sentence suspended for three years.
Unique identifier:
GP0268T
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
06/09/2010
Locations:
Aomori
,
Asia
,
Japan
Credit line:
© Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Tokyo Two Trial Verdict in Aomori
Greenpeace Japan activists Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato arrive at Aomori Court to hear the verdict in their trial. The two activists were convicted of theft and trespass after carrying out a public interest investigation into embezzlement, during which they intercepted as evidence one of numerous boxes of whale meat coming from the whaling factory ship the Nisshin Maru and destined for private use, which breaches the regulations of the taxpayer-funded programme. The banners held by Greenpeace Japan colleagues claim the sentence is a "wrongful conviction". The trial became a landmark for Japan's legal system, after a recent opinion by the United Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that authorities have breached both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights, in the treatment of Sato and Suzuki.
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