機械メーカー、大川原化工機の社長らの不当逮捕で、東京都と国に損害賠償を求めた訴訟。約１億６６００万円の賠償を命じた東京高裁判決に、警視庁と東京地方検察庁（地検）が上告を断念し、大川原化工機の全面勝訴となりました。
The central and Tokyo metropolitan governments decided not to appeal a recent court ruling in a damages lawsuit that found investigations into machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki were illegal.
The ruling, which ordered the Tokyo metropolitan and central governments to pay a total of ¥166 million in compensation, has been finalized.
上告を断念する：give up the appeal, withdraw the appeal, abandon the appeal等
・The court dismissed the appeal.（裁判所が上告を認めず棄却する場合）
※damages lawsuit損害賠償訴訟
※machinery maker機械メーカー ➾精密機械precision machinery manufacturer
2020年、警視庁公安部は軍事転用可能な噴霧乾燥機を無許可で輸出した外為法違反容疑で社長ら３人を逮捕。
In March 2020, the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Masaaki Okawara, CEO of the Yokohama-based company, and two others for allegedly exporting without permission a spray dryer that could be repurposed for weapons production, in violation of the foreign exchange law.
※repurpose=〔既存のものを〕別の目的で［用途に］使う
軍事転用：military conversion, diversion to military V: divert ～ to military use
※dual-use 形：①二重用途の ②軍民両用の、軍用にも民生用にも利用できる
しかし、初公判直前の21年、輸出規制対象に当たるか疑義が生じたとして、地検が起訴を取り消しました。
But the Tokyo prosecutor's office dropped the charges against them in July 2021, just before the first criminal court hearing on the case, saying that doubts had arisen over whether the spray dryer in question was among the products subject to export controls.
複数の現職警察官は、捜査に当たり「捏造」「問題があった」などと証言。
During the hearings in the suit, active police officers testified that the case was a "fabrication" and "problematic."
※active【軍事】現役の、従軍 a police officer in active service/in-service police officer
※incumbentやsittingは主に政治家に使う
東京高裁は、公安部が必要な追加捜査を怠って逮捕に踏み切り、地検も通常要求される捜査をせずに起訴したと判断。一審東京地裁に続き、一連の捜査の違法性を認定。
In the damages suit, Tokyo High Court determined on May 28 this year that the Public Security Bureau arrested the Ohkawara Kakohki officials without necessary additional investigations, and that the prosecutors' office indicted them without conducting the probes that are normally required. It upheld a Tokyo District Court ruling that the authorities' investigations were illegal.
※uphold下級審の判決を支持する
弁護団の保釈請求は証拠隠滅を理由に6回棄却。身柄拘束は一年近くとなり、その間に顧問は癌で亡くなっています。
The defense team repeatedly asked for their release on bail, but the prosecutors' office opposed it on the grounds that evidence might be destroyed, and the court refused to grant the request.
The president and others were detained for nearly a year. One of the accused was diagnosed with cancer while in detention and passed away before the charges were dropped.
※release on bail 保釈される
※証拠隠滅 destruction of evidence
※grant (要請や願いを）認める、許可する
人質司法〔日本弁護士連合会が1998年に国連人権委員会に提出した報告書で述べた言葉〕の新たな前例となりました。
The case is another example of Japan's "hostage justice" system. Suspects are kept in detention unless they admit to the allegations against them.
その後、警視庁副総監と地検公安部長が、大川原化工機を訪問し謝罪。が、名前を言い間違え name mix-up していました。
Representatives of Tokyo‘s Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office visited the company and apologized for wrongly accusing three company executives.
The Japanese law enforcement culture that bred false charges must be rooted out.
(社説より：冤罪を生み出す日本の法執行文化は根絶されなければなりません)➾冤罪 false accusation
※breed（好ましくない事を）起こす、繁殖する
※root out根絶する
