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Ex-AUM member sentenced to life for nerve-gas attack.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 04-JUN-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, May 30 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING REASONS FOR COURT DECISION, DETAILS)

The Tokyo District Court sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday a former member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult who took part in four incidents, including a 1994 nerve-gas attack that killed seven people in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.

Presiding Judge Toshio Nagai handed down the ruling to Noboru Nakamura, 34. Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty.

According to the ruling, Nakamura conspired with...

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