AUM trials over

AUM trials over

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Seiichi Endo, former senior member of Japanese cult AUM Shinrikyo. The Supreme Court on Nov. 21, 2011, rejected the appeal against the death sentence for Endo over his involvement in the group's sarin gas attacks in Japan in the 1990s, effectively ending more than 16 years of investigations and trials involving the group that horrified the nation with its terrorist acts.

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