Tokyo: Japan’s Supreme Court issued a rare not guilty verdict, overturning the conviction of a Vietnamese woman for abandoning stillborn twins that she delivered alone.
Le Thi Thuy Linh received a three-month suspended sentence in January 2022, in a case cited as an example of the pressures faced by women enrolled in Japan’s “technical intern” programme.
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