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© 2019 AFPTired Ghosn recovering, as lawyer works on defense
By Hiroshi Hiyama TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Asiaman7
Delighted to see that Ghosn is out of that silly mask and uniform the policed put him in yesterday to parade him before the press like a remorseful criminal ashamed to show his face.
sf2k
takes a costume to leave the circus
fxgai
What if his wife gives him her iPhone?
It's just embarrassing, especially in view of those cases where police framed people and stole their lives from them before DNA evidence clearing these poor souls, decades later.
The State is supposed to protect the people who live within it, not destroy them.
vinarius@pm.catv.ne.jp
Carlos , congratulations , well done. Gambatte pls.
Disillusioned
I'm also very glad to see he has been released, especially because he should not have been locked up in the first place.
This is just not going to happen. Japan will never change for the better to have a more modern system of democracy. The Japanese version of democracy is much closer to a fascist state run by bureaucrats.
quercetum
This guy has a good head on his shoulders. Gohn should speak to the press but must not shoot himself in the foot.
JenniSchiebel
The article says, "The outfit can be seen as 'humorous' but Ghosn could have left in more traditional garb, Hironaka added. He said he understood it was a plan concocted by the tycoon and bail lawyers."
TorafusuTorasan
@Asiaman7--no way the police suggested the two vans with blacked out windows, one parked blocking the view of the entrance, and the decoy construction workers going in and bringing out a mysterious cosplay factory worker. The press is kept quite far from that spot anyway, which is why on the news coverage you didn't hear any reporters shouting questions to Ghosn. There were no police outside "parading" him as you suggest--how could they when he is free on bail at the point of the photos?
daito_hak
Credits must be given to his new lawyer who seems to say things as they should be without any hypocrisy that often characterize Japanese in general. And I think that before Ghosn was released, the fact that his lawyer several times in press conferences called out with strong words the Japanese justice system as violating the rights of the defense and human rights had some real contributing effects on Ghosn release. His declarations were reported in many foreign media and it really started to echo well around the world. He does seem to understand well that shaming Japan does work.
TorafusuTorasan
OK, now I see the photo of Ghosn with an officer on each side, but I still dispute that it is "parading" him rather than escorting him to the waiting van.
Yubaru
Cripes, let's be real here, they keep them a long time to coerce confessions.
Renny
I wonder what the first thing he ate was after all that prison food
Tatsuwashi
My prediction is that this trial will drag on for a few years, essential subjecting Ghosn to a form of house arrest for that time. Albeit in his luxury penthouse...
Cricky
Monty Python could not touch the quasi legal system Japan operates. At each step the ridiculous rules that have no touch with reality or facts just show how behind Japan is, a little sister for China. That's got to hurt.
Ex_Res
My prediction is that this trial will drag on for a few years, essential subjecting Ghosn to a form of house arrest for that time. Albeit in his luxury penthouse...
It would suit the prosecutor for this case to drag on. In Japan there is a mindset that if you drag things out, people will just loose interest and the problem will just go away.
That has not happened this time. Always remember folks, it is Japan and Japanese law that is on trail.
Ps. A few months JT reported the case of a young man being held in an immigration center indefinitely. Seems the only reason for his incarceration was being born (Thai mother). Has he been released yet?
Let the UN see this.
SumoBob
Of course of course that hasn't stopped the prosecution from using the willing and complicit media from day one to constantly pound the message that Ghosn is guilty of something.
Akie
Hironaka said he did not know why Ghosn decided to leave the detention center dressed a bit like a construction worker, donning a blue cap and a work jacket with yellow reflective stripes.
Hahha, Ghosn isn't as dumb as appeared. Quite oppositely, he is using his brain. He left image that he was treated drastically different than expectation.
Akie
Japan, Koreas, China, and Vietnam, and all East Asia, except colonized Filliping, have low crime rate, people enjoy harmonic, fair, open, and safe environment. Factually checked and correct for the last 3000 years, except during and before WW2 when Japan was colonized ideologically by the imperialism thugs.
Ex_Res
Japan, Koreas, China, and Vietnam, and all East Asia, except colonized Filliping, have low crime rate, people enjoy harmonic, fair, open, and safe environment. Factually checked and correct for the last 3000 years, except during and before WW2 when Japan was colonized ideologically by the imperialism thugs.
Akie, I am having a little trouble deciphering this.
Are you saying that there has never been war's or disputes in East Asia until the 1930's. That is not factually correct at all.
Incidentally. Japan has never been colonised, only occupied for a temporary period of time, although most of the thuggery in the region was conducted by Japan before and during WW2.
tinawatanabe
He doesn't look he lost any weight.
Aly Rustom
Damn! Stick it to the system sir! Good on you!!
This of course has nothing to do with the trial. they don't want him to have access to the internet so that he use social media to tell the outside world what's been happening to him the past few months
bullfighter
Ghosn did not live in Japan. In recent years he spent very little time in Japan. He in fact had to be lured to Japan in order for the Japanese police to arrest him.