1.   The government is proposing to ban the cult, which is charged with mounting the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system last year.

2.   Authorities are now seeking to invoke a rarely used anti-subversive-activities law that would effectively ban the cult.

3.   If the cult is banned, its members would be forbidden to gather in large groups, publish literature or raise money.

4.   The cult has been banned from operating in Bosnia.

5.   The cult has been banned from operating in Russia.

6.   There is no deadline for a decision on whether to ban the cult.

7.   Wu was arrested in Anhui at the beginning of the year, and Guangdong authorities recently arrested eight other senior leaders and banned the cult, the reports said.