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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

Al Jazeera reports [aljazeera.com] that Japan's Supreme Court has dismissed a case that challenged police surveillance of Muslims that appears to be based purely on their religion. The plaintiffs had asserted that the investigations, which may have had more than 72,000 subjects "including about 1,600 public school students," violated the rights to "privacy, equal treatment, and religious freedom" guaranteed by the Japanese constitution. [wikipedia.org]

Edward Snowden had criticised the profiling, saying

People of the Islamic faith are more likely to be targeted ... despite not having any criminal activities or associations or anything like that in their background, simply because people are afraid. But in Japan, let's look seriously at that. The Aum Shinrikyo was the last significant terrorist event in Japan, and that was over 20 years ago. This wasn't a fundamental Islamic extremist group, this was a crazy doomsday cult that wanted to make their founder the new emperor of Japan.

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