Families are calling on the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to investigate if Aishima Shizu’s detention violated international law. Shizuo was arrested in 2020 after the company he worked for was falsely accused of exporting equipment that could be repurposed for biological weaponry. He had been behind bars in Japan for about six months when his health deteriorated and he was taken for tests.
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