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High court upholds death sentence for ex-AUM cultist.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 17-DEC-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 13 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH DETAILS OF RULING)

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a death sentence for a former senior AUM Shinrikyo cultist who murdered an anti-AUM lawyer, his wife and infant son and another AUM follower in 1989.

Presiding Judge Yoshimasa Kawabe affirmed the Tokyo District Court's 1998 sentence against Kazuaki Okazaki, 41, finding him guilty of killing cultist Shuji Taguchi, 21, Yokohama lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko.

Sakamoto was the leader of a group of lawyers representing families whose relatives joined the sect.

Thursday's ruling marks the first high court decision...

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