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Japan: Tokyo High Court awards incarcerated person over $1,300 for forced strip search
The Tokyo High Court ordered the government to pay 200,000 yen (about $1,350) in damages to an incarcerated man who filed a lawsuit demanding compensation for being stripped naked in what he argued was an illegal body search.
Source: Mainichi (30/09/2025)
