Court Sentences Founder of Red Army to 20 Years
From Times Wire Reports
A Tokyo court convicted and sentenced a founder of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder in a 1974 attack on the French Embassy in The Hague, court officials said.
The Tokyo District Court found Fusako Shigenobu, 60, guilty of kidnapping and confinement, as well as attempted murder, in the 1974 case.
Shigenobu was arrested in western Japan in November 2000 after more than 25 years on the run, most of it in the Middle East. She had pleaded innocent.
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