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People gather for tickets to trial of AUM's Hayakawa

TOKYO, Japan - People gather outside the Tokyo District Court on July 28 to get tickets for the trial of Kiyohide Hayakawa, a former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member. Hayakawa was on trial over his role in two separate murder cases, including the killing of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko at their home in Yokohama in 1989, and for building a plant to mass-produce nerve gas.

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Murdered lawyer's colleague speaks to media

TOKYO, Japan - Hisashi Okada, a former colleague of murdered lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, speaks to reporters July 25 after the death sentence was given to a former AUM Shinrikyo follower found guilty of taking part in the 1989 murder of Sakamoto, his wife and small child. The former cult member, Satoru Hashimoto, was also convicted for his role in a 1994 nerve-gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, that left seven people dead.

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Fukuoka detention center

Photo taken July 6, 2018, shows the Fukuoka detention center where senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa was hanged the same day for his involvement in the murders of anti-AUM lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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AUM Shinrikyo cult group

File photo taken in November 1989 shows AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara (R), whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and senior cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa, holding a press conference in Bonn, Germany, denying the group's involvement in the murders of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family. Sakamoto had been helping parents seeking to free their children of the cult's control. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Murdered lawyer's colleague speaks to media

TOKYO, Japan - Hisashi Okada, a former colleague of murdered lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, speaks to reporters July 25 after the death sentence was given to a former AUM Shinrikyo follower found guilty of taking part in the 1989 murder of Sakamoto, his wife and small child. The former cult member, Satoru Hashimoto, was also convicted for his role in a 1994 nerve-gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, that left seven people dead.

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Death penalty sought for AUM ex-member for lawyer's murder

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors on Dec. 17 asks for the death sentence for Kiyohide Hayakawa (file photo), a former leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo religious group, for his part in the murder of a lawyer and his family in 1989. Hayakawa, 50, has been indicted, along with AUM founder Chizuo Matsumoto and four others, for murdering Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife Satoko and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko at their home in Yokohama in November 1989. Sakamoto was a lawyer who was handling several legal suits against the sect.