{"id":51544,"date":"2025-09-01T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=51544"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:32:05","slug":"rainbow-six-siege-pro-will-not-be-prosecuted-in-alleged-kidnapping-and-torture-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/rainbow-six-siege-pro-will-not-be-prosecuted-in-alleged-kidnapping-and-torture-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Six Siege pro will not be prosecuted in alleged kidnapping and torture case\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese pro gamer BlackRay, who made headlines in July after being arrested on suspicion of involvement in an elaborate kidnapping and physical assault case, recently gave an update on the situation on X. In an August 29 post, he said that charges against him have been dropped as of August 27, meaning he will not be prosecuted (note that this is not the same as receiving a \u201cnot guilty\u201d verdict, as X\u2019s machine translation erroneously suggests).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">8\u670827\u65e5\u4ed8\u3067\u4e0d\u8d77\u8a34\u5224\u6c7a\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br><br>\u304a\u9a12\u304c\u3057\u3066\u7533\u3057\u8a33\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002<\/p>&mdash; BlackRay (@_BlackRay_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_BlackRay_\/status\/1961319737045958763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BlackRay (Sho Hasegawa) was a professional Rainbow Six Siege player and a member of the CAG OSAKA esports organization. Shortly after news of his arrest broke, the team announced its withdrawal from the APAC North 2025 playoffs and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclops-osaka.jp\/news\/2025\/1828.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terminated BlackRay\u2019s contract<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jiji.com\/jc\/article?k=2025071700268&amp;g=soc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jiji Press<\/a> back in July, BlackRay had been arrested along six other individuals on suspicion of confining and physically assaulting a man over a three month-period. The report described gruesome details of the assault, with the victim allegedly being beaten, stabbed, burned and tortured with boiling water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports did not include details regarding the extent of BlackRay\u2019s involvement, but on August 7, he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_BlackRay_\/status\/1953406422420685003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that he was released on the previous day with his charges pending, commenting, \u201cAt this time, I have nothing to report regarding my own admission or denial of the charges.\u201d Then, on August 29, he followed up to announce that the prosecution dropped charges against him. He apologized \u201cfor causing a disturbance.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have dropped the charges against Sho Hasegawa (BlackRay) following his arrest in July this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-51544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rainbow Six Siege pro will not be prosecuted in alleged kidnapping and torture case\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prosecutors have dropped the charges against Sho Hasegawa (BlackRay) following his arrest in July this year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/rainbow-six-siege-pro-will-not-be-prosecuted-in-alleged-kidnapping-and-torture-case\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rainbow Six Siege pro will not be prosecuted in alleged kidnapping and torture case\u00a0 - 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