The police apologize for the grave of the incorrectly arrested Japanese businessman and died after a long detention

Senior law enforcement officials in Japan apologized to the family of an incorrectly arrested businessman and died after being detained for months.

Shizuo Aishima, former adviser to Ohkawara Kakohki, was one of three CEOs of companies that were illegally held in the trial detention for several months on charges later dropped.

Human rights activists have always called for the end of “hostage justice” practices in Japan, where investigators use absorptions of long trial to compel confessions.

Senior officials from the Tokyo Police visited the Ministry of Supreme Prosecutor and the Office of the Prosecutor in Tokyo’s family and grave on Monday. The officials kneel and prayed in front of the grave, The Times mentioned Japan.

“We are sincerely apologized for the illegal investigation and arrest,” Tituro Kamata, Deputy General Supervisor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, said during a televised meeting with the family.

“I accept an apology, but I will not be able to tolerate.”

The three men were detained and accused in March 2020 on charges of illegally exporting spray dryers capable of producing biological weapons – exports that they argued were legal.

Aishima was diagnosed with gradual cancer in October 2020, but the prosecutors kept him detained, on the pretext that he could destroy evidence if released. He was accepted to the hospital after a month.

His colleagues were released in February 2021, provided they did not meet with Aishima, preventing them from seeing him before his death in the same month.

Later, the general prosecutors dropped the charges, prompting the Ishima family and his colleagues to prosecute the authorities.

Japan Times reported that Tokyo police and Tokyo’s lawsuit apologized directly to the company and others in June. In its report on the investigation, the police said it “lacks the basic principles of the investigation as an organization, and that the leadership chain was dysfunctional.”

Tokyo’s Supreme Court found that investigation and arrests and indictment are illegal and not supported by evidence.

Family lawyer Tsuiushi Takada said at a press conference that the detention of men – authorized several times in the court – “was not a single judge.”

“We need to change the wrong situations of all judges,” he said. “The court must learn from this and think about what they can do so that there are no more victims of” hostage justice “in the future.”

Ibn Ashima Al -Akbar said that he had mixed feelings about apologies and asked for a new investigation into the case, Ashai Shimbon newspaper reported.

“I take them as a step forward, because they confessed to the arrest of the arrest, requests for detention and judicial prosecution,” he said. “I cannot accept the results of your reviews and the disciplinary measures taken.”