2 husbands win damages suit over wives and AUM's Asahara OSAKA, July 28 (Kyodo) -- The Osaka District Court ordered two women and AUM Shinrikyo guru Shoko Asahara on Monday to pay the women's husbands compensation totaling 10 million yen for donations made to the cult without the husbands' knowledge. The Osaka District Court ordered the women -- a 40-year-old wife and a 42-year-old wife -- and Asahara to pay compensation to the husbands aged 54 and 45, from Hyogo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture, respectively. Presiding Judge Yoshihiko Nakaji ruled that the women gave the cult 4 million yen and 3 million yen in 1990 without telling their husbands. Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, acted illegally in telling the women they should make donations with money obtained under such circumstances, according to the ruling. A representative of the plaintiffs said it is the first time a court has ruled that AUM's method of persuading its followers to make donations is illegal. The two women are still AUM followers and living separately from their husbands. The court also ruled that the Hyogo man's paternal rights had been violated given that his daughters, now aged 11 and 8, had been taken away by their mother to live under ''terrible conditions.'' The Osaka man won custody of the couple's four children in 1990. Asahara, 42, and several other AUM members are on trial on murder and other charges in relation to the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack in March 1995 that killed 12 people and injured thousands. He faces numerous charges in a total of 17 criminal cases. -- Weekly runs photos of AUM guru Asahara's arrest TOKYO, July 28 (Kyodo) -- A Japanese weekly magazine, in its latest issue published Monday, carries photos of the arrest of AUM Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara at the cult's complex at the foot of Mt. Fuji in May 1995. Sunday Mainichi's Aug. 10 issue carries nine photos, including a color photo of Asahara sitting on the floor in his hideout at the cult's Kamikuishiki complex in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, shortly after his arrest on May 16, 1995. The arrest came nearly two months after the March 20 Tokyo subway gassing which left 12 people dead and thousands injured. Sunday Mainichi, a sister publication of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, is one of several publications which had doggedly covered the cult. Angered by the Mainichi publications' reporting, AUM reportedly drew up an abortive scheme to attack the Mainichi Shimbun Building just across the street from the moat-surrounded Imperial Palace. Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, has been accused of involvement in 17 criminal cases, including the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and the November 1989 killings of a lawyer, his wife and their son. --