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Family says 16yo's death caused by arrest in Japan

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A sixteen-year-old girl's family says the trauma of her time in a Japanese police cell led to her death. Her case is now driving court action over what critics call Japan's "hostage justice" system, ABC News reports.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/japan-hostage-just...

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