Gov't told to pay damages for denying lawyer access to client

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Honen Kubo (L), the state-appointed defense counsel for Peruvian Jose Manuel Torres Yagi, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting and killing a girl in the city of Hiroshima in 2005, speaks to reporters in Hiroshima on March 13 after the Hiroshima District Court ordered the state to pay him 220,000 yen in compensation after he was denied access to his client. Yagi was in the custody of prosecutors at the time.

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