Carlos Ghosn's daring flight from Japan, where he was awaiting trial on cha...
) fled to Lebanon, saying on Tuesday that he had “escaped injustice” and would “no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system.”
His apparent escape from Japan’s legal system - Tokyo and Lebanon don’t have an extradition treaty - will likely halt or even reverse a trend of recent years towards granting bail in more cases, said Colin Jones, a law professor at Doshisha Law School in Kyoto.In Japan, suspects who deny the charges against them are often detained for long periods and subject to intense questioning without a lawyer present, a system critics call “hostage justice.
“Until the way to achieving this is in sight, we should carefully consider temporarily halting this trend towards bail leniency.”
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