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Court Refuses to Reconsider Berenson Case
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Tuesday refused a request by American Lori Berenson to review its ruling that upheld her 20-year sentence in Peru for terrorism. In a decision issued in November, the Costa Rica-based court - the legal arm of the Organization of American States - rejected Berenson's arguments that Peru violated her rights in a 2001 civilian retrial. It was Berenson's last formal avenue of appeal.

The former New York City resident has denied any wrongdoing and maintains she is a political prisoner whose concern for social justice was distorted by authorities to look like a terrorist agenda.
It was a put up job, including the guns in the house in which she lived with her terrorist boyfriend. And his terrorist compatriots. And the terrorist manuals and leaflets. And the explosives.
Berenson was arrested in November 1995 and sentenced to life without parole by a secret military court, which said she was a leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and masterminded a thwarted takeover of Peru's Congress to exchange hostages for imprisoned rebels.

Under intense non-governmental U.S. pressure, Peru overturned the sentence in August 2000 and sent her case to a civilian anti-terrorism court, which found her guilty of the lesser crime of terrorist collaboration. She is scheduled for release in November 2015, a few weeks after her 46th birthday.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-08-11
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