Tokyo Two Trial Continues

Activists stand outside the courtroom where two Greenpeace activists, Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato, begin their first day of 'defence' questioning at their trial. The banner reads "400,000+ Demand Justice for the Tokyo Two." In the foreground is a living statue of Lady Justice. The Tokyo Two are on trial in Aomori following their exposure of an embezzlement scandal inside the taxpayer-funded whaling industry.

Unique identifier: GP01ZQ4

Type: Image

Shoot date: 08/03/2010

Locations: Aomori, Asia, Japan

Credit line: © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

Containers

Shoot:

Tokyo Two Trial Continues

Greenpeace 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.

Related Collections:

Tokyo Two Stand Trial (Photo & Videos)

Conceptually similar