SYDNEY – Chika Honda spent more than 10 years in an Australian prison for smuggling heroin into the country — a crime that new evidence suggests she did not commit, according to her supporters.
The supporters — a group of Japanese lawyers and Australian academics — say it is a tragic tale of a young life wrecked and justice lost in translation.
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