Tokyo, Nov 10, 2025 (AFP) - Japan death row inmate's sister still fighting, even after release

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2025-11-10

Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against capital punishment in Japan and beyond. "Courts are run by people and they obviously make mistakes," Hideko told AFP in an interview at a congress in Tokyo on the death penalty in East Asia where she was a keynote speaker. "I fought for 58 years. I cannot just be sa......

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