Japanese Red Army founder Shigenobu freed from prison

Japan’s Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu (centre) after her release from jail, flanked by her daughter May Shigenobu (right) and her lawyer (left) talks to journalists in Akishima, Tokyo prefecture on Saturday, May 28, 2022. - AFP

TOKYO, May 28, 2022 (AFP): Fusako Shigenobu, the 76-year-old female founder of the once-feared Japanese Red Army, walked free from prison Saturday after completing a 20-year sentence for a 1974 embassy siege.

Shigenobu was one of the world's most notorious women during the 1970s and 1980s, when her radical leftist group carried out armed attacks worldwide in support of the Palestinian cause.