AUM calls on security arbiter not to extend surveillance

TOKYO, Japan - AUM Shinrikyo cult leader Fumihiro Joyu speaks to reporters at the cult's facility in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Jan. 8 after appearing before a session of the Public Security Examination Commission. Joyu reportedly called on the commission to reject a government request for further surveillance of the sect, now renamed Aleph.

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