The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a 28-year-old Swiss woman's acquittal of attempting to smuggle 2.2 kg of amphetamines from Malaysia in 2006.
Although found not guilty by the Chiba District Court last August, the woman remained in custody at the Tokyo Detention House while prosecutors appealed the ruling.
"Although we are pleased with the verdict, we also question why our client had to be held in custody for an extended period of time," lawyer Masashi Ozawa said, declining, at the defendant's request, to identify her by name.