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Geneva (dpa) - A UN working group has described the pre-trial detention of the former head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automobile group, Carlos Ghosn, in Japan as a "deprivation of liberty".
This violated several articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to the assessment published by the working group on arbitrary arrests in Geneva on Monday.
Ghosn was arrested and charged in Tokyo on November 19, 2018, among other things for violating stock market requirements.
In April 2019 he was released from custody under strict conditions on bail.
Ghosn then fled under dubious circumstances in a private jet via Turkey to Beirut at the end of December.
It is said to have been hidden in a box that was declared as luggage for musical instruments at the airport and that was not x-rayed.
The native Brazilian has both Lebanese and French citizenship.
Ghosn had denied the allegations against him several times in Japan.
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Ghosn's team reported, among other things, that the manager was interrogated without a lawyer and was partly held in solitary confinement.
He had been temporarily denied the exit from the cell and was prevented from sleeping by permanent light sources.
The government of Japan rejected allegations in a statement to the working group.
Ghosn was treated in accordance with Japanese law, which respected human rights.
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