Kagoshima man wronged by police demands dismissal of 3 officers

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Sachio Kawabata (L), 61, a hotel operator in Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture, arrives at the Kagoshima prefectural police headquarters on Feb. 20 with a petition signed by 6,100 people calling for the dismissal of three police officers who trampled on a piece of paper containing the names of Kawabata's relatives during a police investigation on vote buying at the 2003 Kagoshima prefectural assembly election. The Kagoshima District Court, ruling on a lawsuit filed by Kawabata, called the trampling illegal and ordered the prefecture to pay Kawabata 600,000 yen in compensation. The ruling became final as the prefecture decided not to appeal.

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