Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese government on Monday protested against a letter to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from a United Nations legal expert raising concerns that planned legislation targeting terrorism and other crimes could allow police to trample civil liberties.
A protest by Yoshihide Suga drew a stiff rejoinder from Joseph Cannataci, UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy, who blasted Suga’s comments as “angry words” with “no substance” in comments to reporters by Skype.
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