＃22 JFBA's warning to provide psychological treatment

The appeal was turned down at the end of March 2006, followed by an immediate appeal and special appeal filed by the defense attorneys.  During this period, the seventh psychiatrist prepared a written opinion.  However, both the immediate appeal and special appeal were turned down, and judgment was finalized on September 15 of the same year.

The Tokyo Detention House began to refuse visitation by the defense attorneys in April 2007.

The Detention House began to refuse visitation when things calmed down, i.e., almost seven months after the relationship between the Tokyo High Court and our father was disconnected; therefore this visitation refusal was obviously initiated by the Tokyo Detention House.  Even still, the Tokyo Detention House tried to save appearances in front of the defense attorneys, claiming that visitation naturally became difficult for our father's own convenience.

"×○○○○○○○×××××○○×××○○××○○××○×××××○○○×××××××○
(○ indicates successful visitation upon visitation request and × indicates unsuccessful visitation.)"

As indicated in the above, they tried to create a flow of natural inevitability of visitation, rather than quickly refusing all visitations.  When they refused visitation, they claimed that it was due to our father's condition or problem, saying that "they talked to him but he did not try to move", etc.  However, our father was not moving on his own from the first place, because he was always transported on the wheelchair.

The Japan Federation of Bar Association (federation of local bar associations in Japan established under the Lawyers Act; abbreviated as JFBA below) warned the Tokyo Detention House where our father is imprisoned to allow him to receive proper psychiatric treatment under the "petition to protect human rights" on November 6 of the same year.

JFBA's Civil Liberties Commission pointed out in the investigation report that there is a full-time psychiatrist at the Tokyo Detention House but "basic psychiatric treatment has not been provided", requesting examination by an outside psychiatrist as well as prompt drug therapy or treatment at a medical prison.  However, the Tokyo Detention House never provided medical treatment for our father who "cannot be ill" or whose illness "should not be treated".