People queue for admission to AUM trial

People queue for admission to AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - People line up to get tickets for admission to the Tokyo District Court on June 29, where Yasuo Hayashi, 42, a former member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, will be sentenced in connection with the 1994 sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, and another on the Tokyo subway system in 1995.

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