Carlos Ghosn¡¯s detention for almost 130 days in a Japanese jail was neither necessary nor reasonable and violated the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman¡¯s human rights, a U.N. panel concluded in a harsh critique of Tokyo prosecutors who led the case against him.
The decision to arrest Ghosn four times in a row so as to extend his detention was ¡°fundamentally unfair,¡± the U.N. Human Rights Council¡¯s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said in a report Monday posted on its website. The panel said that it would refer the case to the U.N.¡¯s rapporteur on torture, cruel and other inhuman or degrading treatment.
¡°The repeated arrest of Mr. Ghosn appears to be an abuse of process intended to ensure that he remained in custody,¡± the panel said, pointing out that on at least two occasions he was arrested for the same alleged crime, only for a different time period. ¡°This revolving pattern of detention was an extrajudicial abuse of process that can have no legal basis under international law.¡±
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