Permalink: https://photo.greenpeace.org/archive/Tokyo-Two-Trial-Continues-27MZIFLMC2_V.htmlConceptually similarTokyo Two Trial ContinuesGP01ZUECompleted★★★★Tokyo Two Trial ContinuesGP01ZQ8Completed★★★★Pre-Trial of the Tokyo TwoGP01OLZCompleted★★★★Pre-Trial of the Tokyo TwoGP01OLXCompleted★★★★Pre-Trial of the Tokyo TwoGP01OLYCompleted★★★★Junichi Sato at Press Briefing in AomoriGP01S9OCompleted★★★★Junichi Sato at Press Briefing in AomoriGP01S9NCompleted★★★★Tokyo Two Trial ContinuesGP01ZQACompleted★★★★Junichi Sato and Koru Suzuki at Press Briefing in AomoriGP01S9LCompleted★★★★View AllGP01ZUFTokyo Two Trial ContinuesProfessor Dirk Voorhoof (on right) from Ghent University, Belgium, and 'Tokyo Two' lead defence counsel Yuichi Kaido (on left) participate in a press conference after court proceedings. An international expert on freedom of expression, Prof. Voorhoof testified that the arrest, detainment and now prosecution of Greenpeace anti-whaling activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki (known as the 'Tokyo Two') is a violation of their human rights, and contravenes international human rights conventions that Japan is a party to.Locations:Aomori-Asia-JapanDate:11 Mar, 2010Credit:© Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / GreenpeaceMaximum size:4368px X 2912pxKeywords:Court cases-Day-Indoors-Japanese Government-KWCI (GPI)-Law-Lawyers-Men-Oceans (campaign title)-Press conferences-Teachers-Tokyo Two (campaign title)-Two people-WhalingShoot:Tokyo Two Trial ContinuesGreenpeace Japan's Toru Suzuki and colleague Junichi Sato are on trial in Aomori following their exposure of an embezzlement scandal inside the taxpayer-funded whaling industry. The trial has become a landmark for Japan's legal system, after a recent opinion by the United Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that authorities have breached both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights, in the treatment of Sato and Suzuki.
