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Japanese court acquits longest-serving death row prisoner

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Hideko Hakamada, sister of Iwao Hakamada leaves the Shizuoka District Court in Shizuoka. [Philip Fong, AFP]

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted on Thursday, more than half a century after his murder conviction, when a Japanese court ruled that evidence had been fabricated.

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