Shigenobu, the founder of the Japanese Red Army,

Shigenobu, the founder of the Japanese Red Army, was released after 20 years.

After serving 20 years in prison for her role in a 1974 embassy siege, the co-founder of the Japanese Red Army militant group has been released.

Fusako Shigenobu, 76, had spent decades evading capture before being apprehended in Osaka in 2000.

Her once-feared organization had hoped to spark a global socialist revolution through high-profile terrorist acts.

They were responsible for a number of hostage-takings and hijackings, as well as a deadly attack on an Israeli airport.

Shigenobu, on the other hand, served time for the 1974 attack on the French embassy in The Hague, in which the ambassador and several others were held hostage for 100 hours by three Red Army militants.

The siege ended when France was liberated.