TOKYO, Nov 27, 2015 (AFP) - A Japanese appeals court overturned a guilty verdict Friday for a former cult member convicted in a parcel bombing, the court said, in a rare acquittal involving the group also responsible for a deadly nerve gas attack.
Members of the doomsday Aum Supreme Truth cult released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, killing 13 people and sickening thousands of commuters in a crime that deeply scarred Japan’s sense of security.
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