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. Ailing health prevented 88-year-old former boxer Iwao Hakamata from being in the court to learn the outcome of his retrial, which was granted a decade ago after a long campaign by supporters.
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