Runaway former Nissan chair says he is victim of ‘inhumane system of hostage justice’The former Renault-Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn likened his arrest by Japanese prosecutors to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor as he spoke publicly for the first time since his audacious escape from Japan. “I didn’t run from justice, I want justice,” he said, adding that Japan’s justice system was “rigged”. During a two-and-a-half-hour press conference, Ghosn told a packed room that he had been a victim of an “anachronistic and inhumane system of hostage justice”, pointing to a 99.4% conviction rate in Japan’s justice system. “I did not escape justice, I fled injustice and political persecution. In a comparison certain to enrage commentators in Japan, he likened his surprise arrest to the ambush of the US naval base Pearl Harbor in the second world war.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2020 13:59 UTC