Japan court orders retrial for decades-long death row inmate ...Middle East

TOKYO: Tokyo's High Court ordered a retrial on Monday for an 87-year-old former boxer, dubbed the world's longest-serving death row inmate, nearly six decades after he was convicted of murder.Lawyers for Iwao Hakamada left the court after a brief session and unfurled banners reading “retrial” as supporters shouted “Free Hakamada now”.“I was waiting for this day for 57 years and it has come,“ said Hakamada’s sister Hideko, who has campaigned tirelessly on her brother’s behalf.Hakamada spent nearly five decades on death row and was certified the world's longest-serving death row inmate, before a lower court ordered a retrial and freed him while his case proceeded.He was sentenced to death in 1

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