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IANS | 14 Sep, 2021
Japanese Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said on Tuesday that the
country is considering the introduction of a tougher jail sentence as
part of penalties for cyber crimes.
Kamikawa told a press
conference that she would ask her advisory panel on Thursday to review
the plan to impose a prison term of up to one year or a fine of up to
300,000 yen ($2,726) for online insults and extend the statute of
limitations for three years, reports Xinhua news agency.
Currently,
the penalty is a less than 30 days of detention or a fine of less than
10,000 yen, and the statute of limitations is only one year.
Kamikawa
said: "Online insults provoke similar posts one after another, which
can lead to irreversible human rights violations... As we see growing
criticism against online abuse, we need to designate the act as a crime
to be seriously dealt with and curb it."
Hana Kimura, a
22-year-old woman, was a professional wrestler and cast member of the
popular Netflix reality show "Terrace House" in May 2020.
She
committed suicide because of a barrage of hateful messages on social
media, which was a well-known case of cyberbullying in Japan.
However, two men found guilty in the case were only fined 9,000 yen.
Provisions on insults have not been drastically reviewed under Japan's Penal Code, as the law was established in 1907.
Defamation,
a similar concept that involves an untrue statement referring to a
specific action, could be penalized with a prison term of up to three
years or a fine of up to 500,000 yen in Japan.
However, it is not suitable to include insults under this penalty.
After
the death of Kimura, Parliament in April introduced a law for
establishing an easier court procedure for helping victims of
cyberbullying to seek perpetrators.
With the legislation, which
is expected to be effective in the fall of next year, victims can obtain
information of the harassers through only one court proceeding instead
of going through at least two court proceedings, with one of them for
social media operators and the other for the internet service provider,
at present.
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