Japanese Red Army founder Shigenobu freed after 20 years
founder of the Japanese Red Army militant group has been freed from prison after serving 20 years for her part in a 1974 embassy siege./ Fusako Shigenobu, 76, had evaded capture for decades before being arrested in Osaka in 2000./ Her once-feared group had aimed to provoke a global socialist revolution through high-profile terror acts./ They carried out a series of hostage-takings and hijackings, as well as a deadly attack on an Israeli airport./ But Shigenobu served time for the 1974 attack on the French embassy in The Hague, in which the ...
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