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Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃, Asahara Shōkō, March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018), born Chizuo Matsumoto (松本 智津夫, Matsumoto Chizuo), was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes.
Japan hanged Shoko Asahara on Friday and six other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which killed 13 people in an attack that shattered the country's myth of public safety. Japan on alert after ...
Amnesty International criticized use of the death penalty in the case. While executions are rare in Japan, they have public support according to surveys. [55] There were 13 members on death row at the time: An anti–Aum Shinrikyo banner in 2014. Aum Shinrikyo members executed on 6 July 2018: [54] Shoko Asahara, leader of Aum Shinrikyo
All of those implicated in the Sakamoto murders received death sentences. [12] The court found that the murder was committed by order of the group's founder, Shoko Asahara, although not all of the perpetrators testified to this effect, and Asahara denied involvement. Asahara's legal team claims that blaming him is an attempt to shift personal ...
The execution of Japanese doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara leaves unanswered questions about Aum Shinrikyo, the group behind the 1995 sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people ...
Shoko Asahara's death warrant. The sarin attack was the most serious attack upon Japan since World War II. Shortly after the attack, Aum lost its status as a religious organization, and many of its assets were seized. [74] The Diet (Japanese parliament) rejected a request from government officials to outlaw the group.
10 Eiji Fujioka 40 M 26 May 1995 Osaka Multiple murders 2 11 Fusao Suda 54 M Tokyo Single murder 1 12 Shigeho Tanaka 69 M Tokyo Single murder 1 13 Shuji Kimura 45 M 21 December 1995 Nagoya: Single murder 1 Hiroshi Miyazawa: 14 Naoto Hirata 63 M Fukuoka: Multiple murders 2 15 Tokujirou Shinohara 68 M Tokyo Multiple murders* 2 16 Yoshiaki Sugimto ...
A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the ...