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Deeply detailed Human Rights Watch probe finds rights of the accused routinely denied

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May 28, 2023
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On November 19, 2018, as he landed in Japan, Tokyo district prosecutors swooped down on Carlos Ghosn’s private jet and arrested him and his top aide, Greg Kelly, for questioning over allegations of false accounting at Nissan, the Japanese car company he had been credited with rescuing. At the time, Ghosn was arguably the world’s most admired car boss, t…

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