JAPAN. TOKYO HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON AUM'S NIIMI
the Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by former doomsday cult member Tomomitsu Niimi convicted in attacks including the 1995 Tokyo nerve gassing that killed 12 people.
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the Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by former doomsday cult member Tomomitsu Niimi convicted in attacks including the 1995 Tokyo nerve gassing that killed 12 people. Niimi, former "home affairs minister" of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, was sentenced to hang in 2002 for murdering 26 people in seven separate attacks.
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- (Sources: AP, 15/03/2006)
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