Ex-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn’s arrests deemed “extrajudicial abuse” by UN human rights panel

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Japan’s justice system is renowned for its 99% conviction rate, which is largely based on suspects confessing their guilt during detainment.

The arrests of Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Groupe Renault and The Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., have been ruled by a United Nations panel to have been an “extrajudicial abuse.”

Ghosn, who remains a fugitive in Lebanon after having escaped from Japan in a box in December 2019, was repeatedly rearrested after his original arrest in November 2018, treatment that the UN panel has now deemed as “arbitrary.”

This represents the latest development in the Ghosn saga, whose flight from Japanese authorities in 2019 seemed to many like they could have been ripped out of a Hollywood movie.

The UN panel’s findings are the latest critique of Japan’s alleged “hostage justice” system, in which detained individuals are reportedly subjected to long periods of detention, interrogation and uncomfortable conditions in which the end goal is to have the suspect confess their guilt.

Ghosn’s wife, Carole, had previously claimed that the former CEO was subject to a regime of…