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Arrest First, Ask Questions Later: The Japanese Police Detention System, Christopher James Neumann
Arrest First, Ask Questions Later: The Japanese Police Detention System, Christopher James Neumann
Penn State International Law Review
The Japanese police detention system enables police and prosecutors to detain criminal suspects for up to twenty-three days without a formal charge, thus posing numerous human rights problems. This comment concentrates on the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which provides a means for identifying the human rights abuses occurring under the Japanese police detention system, as well as a method for rectifying such abuses.