Japanese Court Denies Cult Leader’s Appeal
ASIA: A Japanese court rejected a former cult leader’s appeal of his death sentence for the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subways and other killings, Japanese media reported Monday. Tokyo’s High Court threw out the appeal by Shoko Asahara, former guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, because his lawyers failed to file papers on time, national broadcaster NHK said. Full Story