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Tokyo court upholds death sentence for Japanese sect member

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TOKYO, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - A Tokyo court upheld Thursday the death sentence for a senior member of a Japanese sect involved in the 1995 gas attack in the Tokyo metro that left 12 dead and 5,500 sickened.

Seiichi Endo, a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, charged with preparing the sarin nerve gas used in several terrorist acts, had appealed his 2002 death sentence, with his defense saying he had only made the gas but had not personally taken part in attacks.

Endo had also been found guilty of spraying sarin in Matsumoto in 1994, killing seven, and two attacks on people with the use of the gas.

The founder of Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, and other members of the sect that combined Buddhist and Hindu meditation practices and apocalyptic teachings have been given death sentences, but there have been no executions yet.

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