Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara. Aum carried out the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 13 & injuring thousands
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Chuck Nacke / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
CR9K7HFile size:
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3676 x 5500 px | 31.1 x 46.6 cm | 12.3 x 18.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
24 March 1995Location:
Aum Shinrikyo Office, Moscow, RussiaMore information:
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Photographic Copy of a handout photo of Shoko Asahara, born March 2, 1955 in Japan as Chizuo Matsumoto. Asahara founded the Aum Shinrikyo cult in the 1980’s in Japan. On March 20th 1995 Aum Shinrikyo cult members placed plastic bags of deadly Sarin-gas inside crowded subway trains in Tokyo, Japan. They then punctured the bags with the sharpened tips of their umbrellas. The gas killed 13 and injured approximately 6, 000 men, women and children. At the time of the attack it was estimated that Aum Shinrikyo had 10, 000 members in Japan and 30, 000 in Russia. Asahara was arrested in 1995 and after an eight-year trial he and 12 Aum Shinrikyo members have been sentenced to death by Japanese courts. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office investigated the Moscow branch of Aum Shinrikyo and closed the Russian and Moscow branches. In 2000 Aum Shinrikyo renamed itself Aleph, no longer following Asahara and claims to renounce violence. On June 15th 2012 Japanese police caught Katsuya Takahshi, the last fugitive wanted in connection with the cult’s 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Takahshi’s capture ended a 17-year manhunt in Japan. The portrait was handed out to media in Moscow, Russia, by the Moscow Aum Shinrikyo office. Image copy by Chuck Nacke