Tokyo Two in Aomori

Greenpeace activist Junichi Sato (bottom window) and Toru Suzuki (top window) stand in their hotel windows, unable to meet each other without a lawyer present due to court bail restrictions imposed on them whilst they stand trial in Aomori. Toru Suzuki and colleague Junichi Sato, known as the "Tokyo Two", are on trial in Aomori following their exposure of an embezzlement scandal inside the taxpayer-funded whaling industry.

Unique identifier: GP022AT

Type: Image

Shoot date: 13/05/2010

Locations: Aomori, Asia, Japan

Credit line: © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Tokyo Two Trial Continues

Greenpeace activists Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato, the "Tokyo Two", 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.

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