A panel of human rights experts working with the United Nations has urged the Japanese government to compensate former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn for wrongly detaintion in Japan in late 2018. - AP
GENEVA (AFP): Fugitive auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn's multiple arrests and detentions in Japan before he dramatically fled the country last year were "arbitrary", UN experts have ruled, urging Tokyo to pay him compensation.
In an opinion dated late last week and harshly condemned by Japan, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that "the process of arresting and detaining Ghosn four times was fundamentally unfair".
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