Japan protests U.N. panel's criticism of past detention of Ghosn

Japan has lodged a protest against a U.N. working group that denounced its past detention of former Nissan Motor Co. boss Carlos Ghosn in Tokyo over financial misconduct allegations as "arbitrary," sources close to the matter said Monday.A recent report compiled by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asserts that the conduct of Tokyo prosecutors was arbitrary regarding the detaining of Ghosn ahead of his expected trial.The Japanese Foreign Ministry lodged the protest on Friday, saying the U.N. panel's view was not based on a proper understanding of the Japanese legal system, the s…READ FULL ARTICLE