The Supreme Court will hand down a decision Friday on the appeal of a former Vietnamese trainee convicted of abandoning the corpses of stillborn twins she gave birth to in Kumamoto Prefecture in 2020.
Tens of thousands of supporters and foreign trainees have signed a document seeking the woman's acquittal in a case that has shone a spotlight on the unfair treatment of female trainees who get pregnant or give birth in Japan under the government's so-called technical intern program.
"I hope I'll be acquitted for the sake of foreign trainees who, like me, are suffering because they are unable to tell anyone about their pregnancies," former trainee Le Thi Thuy Linh said in Vietnamese at a press conference in Tokyo after a hearing at the Supreme Court on Feb. 24.
