An Osaka Bar Association official. Osaka prefectural police have decided to permit female suspects to wear bra tops in detention cells after deciding the underwear, comprising a T-shirt and brassiere, cannot be used as a weapon.
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Forcing women to be interrogated without bras could give them a sense of shame, making it difficult to execute their right of defense.
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Aly Rustom
What the HELL???? Oh forget it! japan needs to be thrown in with other despotic regimes like China and the Phillipines. This is not a country that knows ANYTHNING about human rights. Hell, there are middle eastern countries are better than this?
mtuffizi
biggest joke
K3PO
They used to burn bras in the 60s to be liberated.
that person
Every year, for a few weeks after jan 1st, I just can't get the date right. Someone remind me:
Is it 2019 or 1019?
Ah_so
Struggling to understand how underwear could have ever been seen as a weapon. But this is Japan - normal logic does not apply.
kibousha
This is proof that the police learns everything from manga, because in manga there's a story about a woman using the wiring in her bra to kill people