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Japan’s prime court docket finalizes damages order over elimination of heckler

Japan’s prime court docket finalizes damages order over elimination of heckler


The Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that ordered a prefectural authorities to pay ¥550,000 in damages over the police’s elimination of a heckler from a stump speech by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2019.

In the choice dated Monday, the highest court docket’s First Petty Bench, presided over by Justice Takuya Miyama, dismissed an enchantment by the prefectural authorities of Hokkaido within the lawsuit filed by a girl from Sapporo, finalizing the damages order issued by decrease courts. All of the 5 justices on the Supreme Court supported the decision.

According to the June 2023 ruling by Sapporo High Court, the lady shouted her opposition to a tax hike and to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party whereas Abe was giving a speech in entrance of Hokkaido Railway’s Sapporo Station in July 2019, forward of an election for the House of Councilors later that month.

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