Tokyo District Court Nov 20 0:14

"Hikari no Wa", represented by a former Aum Shinrikyo cadre, accuses him of being hurt by honor, saying that the survey document justified the sarin case when the observational renewal was updated In the trial, the Tokyo District Court dismissed the complaint.

“Hikari no Wa”, represented by Fumihiro Kamihiro, is split from “Aleph”, whose name was changed from Aum Shinrikyo, and is subject to observational dispositions that obligate reporting on the actual state of activities based on the Group Regulation Law. .

When the observational disposition was renewed in 2012, a survey document by the Public Security Research Agency stating that "the members made statements to justify the sarin case and that they were attributed to the former death row prisoner Chizuo Matsumoto" It was announced and appealed that it was hurt.

In a ruling on the 19th, Mr. Atsushi Honmoto of the Tokyo District Court said, “Information on the facts that are the reason for renewing the observational disposition is extremely influential and urgent, directly linked to the lives of people and the security of society. “It's not irrational to say that the remarks made by the members in the survey as the reason for renewal are not reasonable.”

Public Security Research Agency "reasonable judgment"

The Public Security Research Agency commented, “It is in line with the country's claims and is a reasonable judgment.”

Hikari no Wa "Appeal"

As for the judgment, Hikari no Wa: “Assuming that the observatory was legitimate, we avoided full judgment about the truth. We appealed, and continued to dispute the observatory in another trial that was disputed by the Supreme Court. I am willing to fight for illegality. "