Greenpeace campaigns director Junichi Sato (pictured here) Greenpeace Japan activist Toru Suzukiare facing political persecution for having exposed corruption in the taxpayer-funded Japanese whaling industry. They were arrested in a crackdown on Greenpeace itself in Tokyo. A quarter of a million Greenpeace supporters wrote to the Prime Minister to demand their release. The arrest was denounced by Amnesty International, and fits a pattern of repression of the rights of free speech in Japan which has been condemned by the United Nations.
Tokyo Japan

Greenpeace campaigns director Junichi Sato (pictured here) Greenpeace Japan activist Toru Suzukiare facing political persecution for having exposed corruption in the taxpayer-funded Japanese whaling industry. They were arrested in a crackdown on Greenpeace itself in Tokyo. A quarter of a million Greenpeace supporters wrote to the Prime Minister to demand their release. The arrest was denounced by Amnesty International, and fits a pattern of repression of the rights of free speech in Japan which has been condemned by the United Nations.

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