Hiroshi Yanagihara cannot forget the day he was forced to confess to a crime he did not commit. he had been detained on suspicion of attempted rape. The police interrogation was so relentless, he says, that it brought him to the brink of suicide. "When I first started saying I was innocent the intimidation and the pressure on me grew stronger," he said. "They kept saying, 'Your family is giving up on you, they're very disappointed in you.' They kept repeating over and over.
 Mr Yanagihara spent two years in jail for a crime he was later cleared of |
"I got to the stage of there's really nothing I can do about this. Anything I say they're not going to listen to, there's nothing I can do. I just said yes, one word yes. That led them to arrest me."
-John
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