CHIBA -- Chiba Prefecture was ordered Monday to pay some 2 million yen to a Philippine woman who was illegally detained for questioning by prefectural police prior to being convicted of a 1997 murder.
In 1999, the Chiba District Court found Manalili Villanueva Rosal, 30, guilty of killing the man she lived with on Nov. 9, 1997, at their condominium in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture.
The Tokyo High Court upheld the ruling last year and Rosal is currently serving an eight-year prison term. But she filed a damages suit against the prefectural government for illegal confinement and questioning by police.