Yu Kikumura

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Yu Kikumura (菊村 憂 Kikumura Yū) is a member of the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization.

Police arrested Kikumura in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when they found him carrying a bomb in his luggage. He was later deported to Japan but released on a technicality.

He was arrested on April 12, 1988 at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper who thought he was acting suspiciously. Kikumura was found carrying three 18-inch (46-cm) pipe bombs loaded with gunpowder. Prosecutors said Kikumura had planned to bomb a military recruitment office in the Veteran's Administration building in lower Manhattan on April 14, the anniversary of the U.S. raid on Libya.

Kikumura was indicted on several counts of interstate transportation of explosive devices and passport violations. After a bench trial on stipulated facts, Kikumura was convicted on November 29, 1988. He is currently serving a sentence of 262 months (slightly less than 22 years) at supermax prison ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.

On February 19, 2007, Jiji press, a Japanese news agency, announced that Kikumura will have served his full term of sentence on April 18 and that he will be released a few months after this official release date.

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• Kikumura v. Hurley, No. 99-1284, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Case filed by Kikumura against Warden John Hurley for denying visitation rights by a Methodist minister.
• Kikumura v. Osagie, No. 04-1249, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Case filed by Kikumura against Anthony Osagie, a physician's assistant at the prison infirmary, and other officers for a delay in treating his medical emergency. URL accessed 16 January 2007.
• Jiji Press:菊村受刑者 米で釈放へ Kikumra will be released after serving his full term of sentence.