The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a member of the Japanese Red Army to a suspended 30-month prison term for forging passport documents in 1974 to help a colleague flee the country.
Mariko Yamamoto, 61, was instructed by Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu to get Junzo Okudaira, then a senior member, out of Japan, according to presiding Judge Manabu Yamazaki.
Shigenobu, 56, was on an international wanted list for her suspected roles in several international terrorist attacks in the 1970s, including masterminding the September 1974 incident in which three Japanese Red Army members seized the French Embassy in The Hague, took 11 people hostage and forced the French government to release one of their comrades.