Thank you for your support in our lawsuit questioning Japan's "right to remain silent."

We would like to report that today we submitted the grounds for appeal and the grounds for acceptance of the appeal and have posted them as litigation documents.

We plan to continue making further submissions so that we can obtain a decision from the Supreme Court on the significance of the right to remain silent.

We appreciate your continued support.

We would like to report that as of today, we have filed an appeal and a request for acceptance of the appeal.

We will do our utmost to ask the Supreme Court to consider the meaning of the right to remain silent.

We look forward to your continued support.

We are a legal team challenging Japan's "right to remain silent."

Since the case page was launched in March 2024, we have received your kind support, which has enabled us to translate foreign precedents and submit them as evidence, as well as to hold presentations and publish videos to provide detailed information on the results of first instance judgments. We would like to express our deepest gratitude for your support.

Unfortunately, the recent appeal court ruling did not properly address my claim that my right to remain silent was violated. I would like to appeal this decision and ask the Supreme Court to make a direct ruling on the issue of the violation of my right to remain silent.

In the appeal hearing, in addition to deepening the discussions that have taken place so far, we would like to seek the opinions of experts in psychology and international human rights law to provide more comprehensive evidence that interrogation after the exercise of the right to remain silent is a violation of human rights and is therefore unacceptable.

In order to cover the costs of these activities (especially soliciting expert advice), we ask for your continued support.

We will continue to question the current situation regarding the right to remain silent in Japan in order to improve it. We ask for your support so that we can move this activity forward even further.

Today's appeal decision will be published in the "Litigation Materials" and "High Court" columns.

A video of the press conference held by Eguchi and his attorney after the verdict has been posted below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hm9iVpIq7Q

We would like to ask for your continued support as we move forward with the appeal process.

The appeal court decision was handed down today (February 6, 2025).

The main ruling was that "the appeal is dismissed," and the contents of the first instance ruling were upheld.

Regarding the relationship between the continuation of interrogation and the right to remain silent, for which we sought a ruling, the court merely repeated the contents of the first-instance ruling and unfortunately no substantive ruling was made.

File an appeal and seek a Supreme Court decision.

We will post the verdict and video of the post-verdict press conference as soon as possible.

We appreciate your continued support.

The oral argument hearing for the appeal was held on December 17th at 10:30 a.m.

The court concluded oral arguments in the appeals court and set the date for handing down the appeals court decision as February 6, 2025 at 11:30 a.m.

We await the verdict, hoping that a decision on the claim of violation of the right to remain silent will be made taking into account the actual circumstances of the interrogation.

For today's post-date press conference, please visit the Plaintiffs' Counsel YouTube channel .

We appreciate your continued support.

The oral argument date for the appeal has been set for Tuesday, December 17th at 10:30 a.m.

(Tokyo High Court, Courtroom 825)

On the day, it is planned to make an oral statement outlining the grounds for appeal, etc.

The appeal statement and preparatory brief (1) that have already been submitted are being posted as litigation documents, and if any additional documents are submitted in the future, we will post them as litigation documents and notify you accordingly.

We appreciate your continued support.

Thank you for your continued support.

Today, we submitted the "Statement of Appeal" and "Preparatory Brief (1)" to the Tokyo High Court. We have uploaded them as legal documents, so please refer to them.

Through these two documents, we have made clear the errors in the first instance ruling and emphasized that we demand a straightforward judgment on the violation of the right to remain silent. We will continue to consider supplementing our arguments in the future.

We appreciate your continued support in the appeal process.

Today (July 30th), we filed an appeal against the first instance ruling.

We will publish a report from the plaintiff himself.

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Thank you to everyone who supported us.

Thank you very much for all the support you provided during the first trial.

Thanks to your support, we were able to complete the first stage of the litigation and also release a number of pieces of information.

We are deeply grateful.

We have now decided to appeal in order to seek a proper judgment on issues such as the violation of the right to remain silent.

As the appeal process progresses and documents are submitted, they will be posted on the CALL4 page.

We would greatly appreciate your continued interest and support in the lawsuit questioning the right to remain silent in Japan.

Thank you very much.

Yamato Eguchi