1.   But defense lawyers for the cult founder refused, at least for now, to accept even that simple document as admissible evidence.

2.   Cult founder Shoko Asahara faces charges of masterminding the attacks and other murders, as well as ordering production of illegal substances, including sarin.

3.   It also said one of those arrested was a close aide of cult founder Shoko Asahara.

4.   The son of suicide cult founder Marshall Applewhite apologizes for a father he barely knew.

5.   They also quoted the lawyers as objecting to a prohibition on sound recordings of the hearing, and to cult founder Shoko Asahara himself being banned from the proceedings.

6.   Cult founder Jouret owned the chalets, police in Canada said.

7.   Two bodies were also found in a building in Morin Heights, close to Montreal, owned by cult founder Luc Jouret, police in Canada said.