Who is Iwao Hakamada? Japanese prisoners who obtained RP24 million compensation after being incarcerated for 46 years

Tokyo – Iwao Hakamada, a man Japan Those who were sentenced to the murder that were the longest inmates in the world received a $ 1.4 million compensation or $ 24 million.

Payment represented 12,500 IENS (USD83) for every day for 46 years past by Iwao Hakamada at the arrest, most of the death prison although every day could be the last day.

Who is Iwao Hakamada? Japanese prisoners who obtained RP24 million compensation after being incarcerated for 46 years

1. Former boxer

The former -Boxer, who is now 89, was released in 2024 from the murder four times in 1966 after the endless campaign by his sister and others.

The Shizuoka District Court, in the verdict dated Monday, said “the plaintiff will be given 217,362,500,000 yen,” a court spokesman said to AFP.

The same court decided in September that Hakamada was innocent in the Trial and that the police damaged evidence.

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2. Never was forced to admit

Hakamada suffered “inhuman interrogation designed to impose a statement (confession)” that he then retired, said the court at that time. The final number is a record for this type of compensation, the local media said.

However, Hakamada’s legal team said the money was not enough to make up for the pain he suffered.

3. Experiencing mental health problems

The arrest for decades – with the threat of execution that continues to eclipse – has a major impact on Hakamada’s mental health, said his lawyer, who described him as “living in the fantasy world.”

Hakamada is the fifth prisoner of the inmates that refers to the history of the post -Japanese Port. The four previous cases also resulted in liberation.

4. The horrible scandal in 1961

Hakamata’s pension as a professional boxer in 1961 and achieved work at the soy processing factory in Shizuoka, Central Japan.

Five years later, he was arrested by police after his boss, his boss’s wife and his two children were found dead in his homes.

Hakamata initially acknowledged the accusation against him, but then changed his defense, accusing the police forced him to confess by hitting him and threatening him.

Hakamata was arrested on August 18, 1966, when he was 30 years old.

5. The phrase in Japan reaches 99 percent

The case invited the overall spotlight of the Japanese criminal justice system, whose ruling reached 99%, according to the Ministry of Justice website, and caused a call to eliminate the death penalty in the country.

Hakamata’s younger brother, Hideko, who has long been a campaign for launch, told CNN last year that decades of prison caused damage that could not be restored to his brother’s mental health.

Hakamata “lives in your own world,” he said.

“Sometimes he smiles happily, but that’s when he experienced delusions … we didn’t even discuss the judgment with Iwao for his inability to recognize reality.”

(AHM)