安倍元首相の国葬差し止め仮処分申し立て　市民ら「法的根拠ない」―東京地裁

　参院選遊説中に銃撃され亡くなった安倍晋三元首相の国葬を行うとの政府方針に対し、市民５０人が２１日、岸田文雄首相を相手取り、閣議決定や予算執行の差し止めを求める仮処分を東京地裁に申し立てた。
　申し立てで「国葬の法的根拠はなく、閣議決定のみによる予算執行は違法。儀式への強制参加は思想良心の自由を定めた憲法１９条にも違反する」と主張した。記者会見した市民の一人は「国会での議論を経ずに決めており、国葬は国民の総意ではない」と強調した。
　松野博一官房長官は２１日の記者会見で「司法の場で取り扱われることでありコメントは差し控えたい」としつつ、「国民一人ひとりに政治的評価や喪に服することを求めるものではない」と述べた。（2022/07/21-19:04）

A group of 50 citizens sought a court injunction Thursday to block a planned state funeral for late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
   With the injunction, sought from Tokyo District Court, the group aims to prevent the government from making a cabinet decision on the state funeral or spending budgeted funds on such an event.
   "There are no legal grounds for a state funeral," the group said in a petition for the injunction. "It is illegal to use budgeted funds on such an event based on a cabinet decision alone."
   Obliging citizens to participate in such a ceremony would "violate Article 19 of the Constitution, which stipulates freedom of thought and conscience," the group also said.
   At a news conference, a group member said that the state funeral plan "was decided without parliamentary debates and therefore does not represent the will of the entire nation."