It turned out that the Chinese courts dismissed the appeals of two Japanese men who were detained for being involved in espionage in China and were sentenced to prison in the first instance, and the decisions were finalized.
The appeal was dismissed in Beijing in 2015 with Eiji Suzuki, president of the Japan-China Youth Exchange Association, who was detained in Beijing in 2016 and sentenced to six years in prison. A Japanese man in his 70s in Hokkaido who was detained and sentenced to 12 years in prison three years ago.
Both were detained for being involved in espionage, and according to people familiar with the matter, they had appealed the prison sentence of the first instance, but were dismissed in a private trial held last November. about it.
China has a two-trial system, and each decision has been finalized.
Since 2015, when the anti-spy law was enforced in China, at least 15 Japanese have been detained on suspicion of espionage.
Nine of them were indicted, and this time all were sentenced, including two whose appeals were dismissed.
It is not clear how each trial was detained and what kind of behavior was considered a problem.