The Japanese court ordered the government to pay the 89-year-old Japanese 217 million yen (1.33 million euros) as compensation for being unlawfully detained in prison for four times the murder for almost half a century. According to DPA, TASR reports this.
Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada was first detained in 1966. He was originally confessed to the murder of his employer, his wife and their two children in Šizuoka after 20 days of interrogation, In his words, he was beating him and threatening him. During the trial, he withdrew his confession.
Innocent in the case of murders, for which he spent 46 years in prison – mostly in the so -called. All death – he was announced last September. The court concluded that the police had manipulated evidence and that Hakamada had undergone inhuman interrogations. It is believed to be the longest living person sentenced to death.
According to his lawyers, the amount of compensation requested by the Japanese government may be the highest ever to be granted in Japan. According to state laws, the exempt person is entitled to 12,500 yen (about 76 euros) for every single day spent in prison.
Japan and the United States are the only great industrialized democracies where the death penalty is paid. In Japan, it has absolute punishment of public support. In the post -war history of Japan, Hakamad is the fifth sentenced to death, which was allowed to restore his trial. All four previous cases also resulted in the exemption of the convicts.
