Tokyo Chemical Attack Mastermind to Undergo Court-Ordered Psychiatric Evaluation

The Tokyo High Court has ordered Shoko Asahara, founder of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway system in 1995, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine his fitness to be tried on appeal, the Associated Press reported Friday (see GSN, March 21).

The court rejected a defense motion to suspend the case until Asahara’s mental condition improves, the Kyodo news agency reported (Associated Press/Ottawa Sun, Aug. 19).

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