Yoshihiro Yasuda, the most experienced attorney on Shoko Asahara's defence team, was arrested and charged with obstruction of the compulsory execution concerning a corporation in which he was an adviser.

The arrest, lengthy trial and subsequent acquittal of Japan's veteran attorney and Human Rights activist Yoshihiro Yasuda, then head of Shoko Asahara's legal team, a move which was harshly criticized by Human Rights Watch, is often cited in support of this hypothesis.

In 1998, during Asahara's trial, Yasuda was arrested and charged with obstruction of the compulsory execution concerning a corporation in which he was an adviser.

Dozens of disciples were arrested, Aum's facilities were raided, and the court issued an order for Shoko Asahara's arrest.

According to Asahara's defense team, a group of senior followers initiated the atrocities, keeping them a secret from Asahara.

In June 2012, Asahara's execution has been postponed due to further arrests of Aum Shinrikyo members.

Asahara's defense team claimed that certain senior members of the group independently planned the attack, but their motives for this were left unexplained.

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Asahara's legal team claims that blaming him is an attempt to shift personal responsibility to a higher authority.

Lobov allegedly met with Shoko Asahara in Japan and arranged Asahara's own visit to Russia in 1992.

The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.

Nanda, these scriptures were Nehru's " first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of .... provided Nehru the initial impulse for long intellectual quest which culminated ... in the Discovery of India.

The early colonists were mostly descendants of those who had followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island in their quest for religious freedom.

Lelio, impulsive and inquisitive, was in quest of the spiritual ground of religious truths ; the drier mind of Fausto sought in external authority a basis for the ethical teaching of Christianity.

D. Michael Quinn has written that Lucy Mack Smith viewed these magical practices as " part of her family's religious quest " while denying that they prevented " family members from accomplishing other, equally important work.

: Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty ; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation ; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations ; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age ; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur ' án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world's leading religious systems ; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest ; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's Revelation ; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples ; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán ; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary ; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad ; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn ; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as " Return ," " Resurrection ," " Seal of the Prophets " and " Day of Judgment "; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation ; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the " City of God ," renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind.

Viviane is portrayed as a strong religious and political leader ; her tragic flaw is her willingness to use others in her quest to save Avalon without thinking of their emotional suffering.

The former assesses where people stand on three distinct forms of religious orientation – religion as means, religion as end, and religion as quest.

He experienced a major religious conversion on Sebastian's day ( January 20 ), while listening to a sermon by Saint John of Avila, who was later to become his spiritual mentor and would encourage him in his quest to improve the life of the poor.

A precursor to the Peace of Augsburg of September, 1555, the Peace of Passau effectively surrendered Charles V's lifelong quest for European religious unity.

These similarities included an engagement in the quest for human meaning and the rise of a new elite class of religious leaders and thinkers in China, India and the Occident.

Her most studied work, The Morgesons is set in a small seaport town, and is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy.

In the quest of imposing national homogeneity on the country where half of the population consisted of ethnic minorities, Reza Shah had previously issued in quick succession bans on the use of Azerbaijani language on the premises of schools, in theatrical performances, religious ceremonies, and, finally, in the publication of books.

In his quest to discover which of the three Abrahamic religions would shape his own religious beliefs, he invited representatives from each to explain their fundamental tenets.

The quest for the historical Jesus is the attempt to use historical rather than religious methods to construct a verifiable biography of Jesus.

He then went on a quest to learn more and found his mother Kismet, alive and living in a secluded religious retreat on the planet Vesper.

" Steve Turner concludes: " The Veedon Fleece ... appears to be Van's Irish equivalent of the Holy Grail a religious relic that would answer his questions if he could track it down on his quest around the west coast of Ireland.

This quest leads him to the girl's stepfather, Gregory Belkin, who would pay any price to fulfill his messianic dream via his immense worldwide religious organization, the Temple of the Mind of God.

Like much political or religious poetry of the Alliterative Revival ( i. e., Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger ), the poem takes the form of a quest for knowledge.

This event instigated the gathering of the quarrelsome Mughals towards the command of Babur, but this time the Mughals sought no riches from their new enemies, they were now firm in their quest for revenge accompanied by a strong religious zeal.

Born to the Quraish tribe of Saudi Arabia, Nami served as a muezzin at the Seqeley mosque after having reportedly become very religious sometime in early 1999.

In 1994, the Taliban ( a movement originating from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-run religious schools for Afghan refugees in Pakistan ) also developed in Afghanistan as a politico-religious force, reportedly in opposition to the tyranny of the local governor.

The family was Jewish but reportedly not religious.

The technique is now used by both religious and secular artists and reportedly is also used by Arabic writer-artists.

Playback singer Lata Mangeshkar reportedly donated her earnings of over one hundred rupees from the film to charitable causes she was involved with at the time, and on 5 October 1957 the production team, Indra Films, donated 300 rupees to a religious person in Delhi.

In modern Israel, the Pulsa diNura ( a controversial Kabbalistic prayer taken to request God to block any further forgiveness of sin for an individual, causing death or some long-term misfortune to shut the individual out from functioning in society ) has allegedly been used against politicians by religious conservative opponents: one was claimed to have been used against Yitzhak Rabin one month prior to his 1995 assassination, and another was reportedly performed against Ariel Sharon six months prior to a catastrophic 2006 stroke that placed him into a persistent vegetative state.

At the time of his death, the duke reportedly was negotiating to enter a Catholic religious order in Italy, having converted to that religion late in life.

Nevertheless, Buddhists in North Korea reportedly fared better than other religious groups – particularly Christians, who were said to often face persecution by the authorities, and Buddhists were given limited funding by the government to promote the religion, given that Buddhism played an integral role in traditional Korean culture.

The Government reportedly allows the teaching of Hebrew, recognizing that it is necessary for Jewish religious practice.

In " Power Plays, Power Works " John Fiske suggests that closeted homosexuality may be more common in American communities suffering from widespread poverty, in which members reportedly depend heavily on traditional family networks ( and often religious institutions ) for financial and emotional support.

Tensions grew in the immediate region, partially driven by religious tensions between some of the more Protestant local people and the Roman Catholic Marquess ; on one of these occasions a local group attempted to search the castle, but were reportedly driven away by the sudden noise of Lord Herbert's steam-engine.

The British took, in controversial circumstances, the Koh-i-Noor diamond along with other items of Dalip Singh's family's considerable personal estate, country and religious property ( most items were sold by public auction ) to Queen Victoria as reportedly part of the terms of the conclusion of the war and the 250th anniversary of the East India Company on 3 July 1850.

The Bambers were wealthy and gave the children a good home and private education, but June in particular was conservative and intensely religious, and reportedly tried to force her children and grandchildren to adopt the same ideas.

She was reportedly replaced in the role after voicing personal religious objections to a planned storyline in which Carlotta would be supportive of a gay relationship.

Fort reportedly hoped that an apparent affiliation with a religious organization would discourage law enforcement.

At least eleven offers were reportedly received, but apparently only two were presented to the Board of Regents, including one from California-based EMF Broadcasting, a non-commercial religious broadcaster which originates the K-Love network.

In 1774, Dr. Manning reportedly presented an argument in favor of religious freedom in an address at Philadelphia's Carpenter's Hall to leading figures from Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other colonies:

The government reportedly allows Hebrew instruction, recognizing that it is necessary for Jewish religious practice.

The team's last major TV collaboration was the abortive comedy series The Off Show ( 1977 ) which was cancelled after only a few episodes following a controversial incident in which ABC executive Alan Batemen pulled the premiere episode from the schedule half an hour before it was due to air and then erased the tape, reportedly because he was offended by the Bill Harding religious parody sketch " Leave It To Jesus ".

Though their religious beliefs was a syncretic mix of many backgrounds, probably like in the early Pagan period, the outlook of the Pyu reportedly was largely peaceful.