オウム観察処分、更新請求　松本元死刑囚の刑執行後初―公安調査庁

　団体規制法に基づくオウム真理教への観察処分が来年１月で期限を迎えるため、公安調査庁は２６日、後継団体「Ａｌｅｐｈ（アレフ）」や分派した「ひかりの輪」など計３団体に対する処分の更新を公安審査委員会に請求した。
　請求は７回目で、２０１８年７月にオウム真理教の元代表松本智津夫（麻原彰晃）元死刑囚＝当時（６３）＝らの刑が執行されてからは初めて。認められれば、さらに３年間施設への立ち入り検査などが可能になる。
　他に対象となるのは、アレフから独立した女性を中心に、１５年から金沢市などで活動する「山田らの集団」。（2020/10/26-10:06）

Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency requested Monday an extension of the surveillance period for three groups deriving from the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.
   The agency filed the request with the Public Security Examination Commission, as the current surveillance period expires in January 2021.
   The three groups are Aleph, which is Aum's successor organization, "Hikari no Wa," which is a splinter group of Aleph, and another group separated from Aleph in 2015, called "Yamada-ra no Shudan," which mainly consists of female members.
   The request for an extension is the first since former Aum leader Chizuo Matsumoto, then 63, and other senior members of the cult were executed in July 2018 over a series of crimes, including a deadly sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system in 1995.
   The extension of the surveillance period will allow authorities to conduct on-site inspections of the groups' facilities for three more years.