Japan’s Top Court Approves Blanket Surveillance of All Muslims
‘The Supreme Court of Japan has upheld the government’s right to continue the mass surveillance of Muslim residents, places of worship, halal restaurants, and other institutions related to the practice of Islam.
The decision came from a second court appeal in a case of Japanese Muslims who argued that the broad monitoring is unconstitutional, invades their privacy, and infringes on their freedom of religion.
“They made us terrorist suspects,” Mohamed Fujita, one of the plaintiffs in the case, told Al Jazeera. “We never did anything wrong — on the contrary.”‘
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