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Panel slams Japanese government for forced isolation of leprosy

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, March 25th, 2005

Japan's policy of forcing leprosy victims into isolation during most of the past century was a severe violation of human rights by government officials and doctors, a government panel has found.

Japan forcibly quarantined sufferers of leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, in isolated sanitariums during an 89-year policy that only ended in 1996, decades after a cure was found and researchers knew the illness was not highly contagious.

A panel investigating why that policy was not repealed earlier submitted its final report to the Health Ministry on March 1, 2005, saying, "the Hansen's disease problem revealed an unprecedented case of human rights...

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2005-03-25)

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