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The wife of the former president of Nissan said her husband was undergoing "severe treatment" in a Japanese prison, while prosecutors "led him head-on" to obtain confessions.
In a nine-page letter, Carole Ghosn said: "My husband is a case study of the realities of this draconian system."
Japanese authorities arrested Carlos Ghosn on November 19 and accused him of not reporting his income of about 5 billion yen (£ 34 million) over five years from 2010 to 2015.
Ms. Ghosn wrote to the Japanese director of Human Rights Watch asking the organization to "highlight the harsh treatment inflicted on my husband and the inequalities in human rights that the Japanese justice system inflicts it ".
Ghosn is currently being held in an unheated cell and is being denied treatment, his wife said in the letter.
She said that he had lost almost three pounds and that he was only eating rice and barley.
"For hours every day, prosecutors interrogate, harbad, lecture and reprimand him, outside of his lawyers, for the purpose of extracting confessions from them," Ghosn said.
"No one should be forced to endure what my husband faces every day, especially in a developed country like Japan, the third largest economy in the world."
"My husband is known for his honesty, integrity and integrity," Ghosn said.
Ghosn was also arrested, but not charged, for alleged loss of personal investment losses of 1.85 billion yen (£ 13 million) to Nissan.
Last week he insisted he had been "wrongly accused and unjustly detained" while he was appearing publicly in court for the first time since his arrest.
Tokyo's Deputy Attorney General Shin Kukimoto said last week that the authorities are confident of having a case.
Mr. Ghosn led a global alliance between Japanese Nissan and French Renault – which Mitsubishi has also added in recent years – and remains at the helm of Renault.
It is credited with a dramatic turnaround in Nissan's fortunes over the past two decades.
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