“There are a number of steps and safeguards that have been introduced in negotiations that make this a remote possibility.”
It’s unlikely British troops in Japan could face the death penalty for capital crimes, despite attempts to exempt British forces, explains Professor Alessio Patalano.
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Can someone explain how questioning a failed and highly risky medicinal product is "dangerous"?
Or how saying "since the holocaust" is offensive?
Seems to me, people want to shut down a debate they're scared to have.
Like f m8
Looool.
Japan? British troops? Hanging? Wat?
Dont drag anyone else into harry saying he killed 25 talibans they know where he lives he brought it on himself he has to face up to it
Not even offering an alternate of being beheaded ? That is pretty stone cold, man. Not to mention that "western style" instant death drop hanging is not always a certainty. Some places also consider elevated slow strangulation done in public as more of a crowd pleaser.
Times Radio with another hyperbolic anti-Britain nonsense story again, what a shock.
Who is the halfwit with the British accent and a Nike … jacket, with US Navy on it. Incongruity is not art. 😉
This headline is very misleading and a little dramatic considering it is very much hypothetical. Downvoted for your nonsense.
The Brits are not above the Law in any country they visit despite what they think.
BTW Does Nike support KCL?
A lot of commenters aren't listening to what s actually being said – last 1/4 of vid is more clickbait tabloid headline related.
Commit a crime somewhere and receive the punishment dictated by the law there. There should be no exceptions or privileges just because you're in the military, British soldiers abroad are not above the law.
If British troops are sent to the US they could face execution! Japan is no different and if they do not want to face this punishment they should not commit any crimes. Japan executes about 10 prisoners per year far less that the US. I do not support capital punishment but I do not see any problem with sending troops to Japan.
We are now watching news about the liberation of the Russian occupied regions in Ukraine not about something happening in the past.
If an exemption was being negotiated for British troops from the death penalty, what happened? Did the Japanese refuse this exemption but we signed anyway? It is mentioned that the Auistralians have a similar agreement and are equally exposed but what about the Yanks, did they strong arm an exemption from the Japanese?
Didn't Great Britain brutally colonised Japan in the past ? What is British troops doing in Japan now ?
Why shouldn’t British troops guilty of capital crimes in Japan be hanged? I don’t see the problem.
It's not surprising Japan still has the death Penalty And they're not shy of using it if it's an extreme case Don't care if they're a foreigner the crime still crime
If guilty of a capital crime, they should be punished according to the law of the land. The US permits its troops to commit war crimes abroad and refuses to let the law of the land dictate punishment, because they feel entitled or superior. They are not, especially if committing crimes. That said…if Japanese forces commit capital crimes, they to should get the chop… otherwise this is a story. As is, it is not…unless the story is about justice and subverting justice
"British troops guilty of crimes in Japan could be hanged". < poor headline
"British troops posted to Japan in new deal could be hanged if found guilty of crimes in Japan". < correct headline
Most people reading the first headline think back to the (very small) British garrison in Japan during the 1940s and 1950s
Why are militaries good, who are professional killers, and legal executions are bad lol
If you commit crime in japan, you get punished according to Japanese law.
It's not a good start. Because according to the Yalta Agreement1945, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union all have the right to station troops in the Japanese archipelago. If UK begins. Then China and Russia will negotiate with Japan in accordance with this agreement, and there is a legal basis.
What a load of bolox
US forces have been stationed in Japan since the post-war occupation. The soldiers accused of crimes face court martial under US military law.