Mr. Kitani said Mr. Sugaya's release has prompted broader moves to hold retrials in several similar cases, including one involving a 1967 robbery-murder in which two men were imprisoned based solely on confessions that they later recanted.
Now, it's the fact that some 3000 Afghan men (and several dozen from other countries) are being imprisoned based largely on secret evidence that U.S. forces admit wouldn't hold up in a real court of law.
Brian Banks is yet another story of a person not only wrongfully imprisoned, but imprisoned based upon his own "voluntary" act.
After his release, he lived in exile in France and wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, based on his experience of the execution of Charles Wooldridge, carried out in Reading Gaol whilst he was imprisoned there.
Where the stories in "Slapboxing With Jesus" bristled with the energy of dire hip-hop singles, "The Ecstatic" lapses into long, torpid subplots -- such as the extended Uncle Arms-Pretty Damn Mad episode, or Anthony's obsession with an imprisoned activist based on Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The Batterville Camp where Blondie and Tuco are imprisoned was based on steel engravings of Andersonville.
Trust in any government to imprison people based on secret intelligence alone was quite rightly undermined by the evaporation of the infamous "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
You can't imprison people, based on evidence that can't be tested, for what they may or may not do in the future.
"How can a country imprison someone based on political or moral reasons?" He knows that sort of treatment happens regularly in countries like Iran, Belarus, China, or Syria; he just doesn't expect it in a country as outwardly respectful of human rights as Finland.
In October, a judge threw out the murder conviction of Susan Mellen, saying that she was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years based on the word of a habitual liar and adding that "the criminal justice system failed".
