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Written by: Chen Chuolan
2019-12-28 18:21
Last updated: 2019-12-28 18:21Japan's "Condemnation to Suppress 12.12 Yasukuni Shrine Protester Support Association" today (28) held a press conference in Hong Kong and stated that it will appeal in March next year over the demonstration of two Hong Kong people outside the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan last December.
Guo Shaojie and Yan Minhua, members of the Baoyu Action Committee, burned a prop deity card with "Tojo Hideki" written in Tokyo last December to protest the Nanjing Massacre. They were arrested on the spot and charged by local police for "treating into a building In October, they were sentenced to 8 months and 6 months in prison and a three-year suspended sentence before being released to Hong Kong.
Guo Shaojie Yan Minhua's demonstration outside the Yasukuni Shrine will be appealed in March next year. (Profile picture)
Appeal aims to guarantee freedom of speech requires Japan to face history
Attorney-general Keiichiro Iwase said in a press conference that the two will appeal in March next year to protect freedom of speech, to ask the Japanese government to face up to historical issues, and to clarify that entering the Yasukuni Shrine does not constitute a building invasion crime. . He emphasized that the Japanese Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and that the Yasukuni Shrine is a public place, and it is ridiculous for the two to be charged by the Japanese side for "the crime of trespassing to a building".
He said that because the prosecution needs time to review the appeal documents, it is estimated that the first time in court will be in May.
Guo Shaojie (left) burned the god card of Tojo Hideki Tojo, a Japanese class-A war criminal, outside the Yasukuni Shrine last year. He was stopped by security and arrested by the Japanese police. (Online picture)
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