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Caribbean-Latin America
Court Refuses to Reconsider Berenson Case
2005-08-11
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

#11  She and her parents thought it was cool that she was shacked up with a terrorista. That was until the policia broke down the door and arrested the whole cell. I thin 60 minutes did a sympathetic show on her once about how she is cold and her cell is barren (sniff). Well in 10 or so years she can tell the whole story on Opra of LKL.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-08-11 22:27  

#10  revoke her passport too. We don't want her when she gets out.
Posted by: Frank G   2005-08-11 16:49  

#9  Not really, mojo.

+ = sympathy
- = schadenfreude
Posted by: Jackal   2005-08-11 15:59  

#8  That would imply "negative sympathy", Moose.

An oxymoron.
Posted by: mojo   2005-08-11 15:35  

#7  Properly, shouldn't the zero on the Sympathy meter be in the middle of the dial? I see it more as an ammeter than as a speedometer.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-08-11 12:18  

#6  To make the world a better place I'd start with her. My have-a-hart racoon trap cage would have to be supersized but I'm up to the task. Large violent rodents like Lori need to be caged or dispatched. No use letting them walk among us and it is unfair to inflict her upon anybody else's country.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-11 11:29  

#5  From her website.

New Year's Message From Lori
January 2005
Dear Friends,
I hope the holiday season and the start of this new year have been good for you, and I want to let you know how grateful I am to receive your interest and support, during all of the years.
A month has gone by since the Inter-American Court favored the Peruvian government in the sentence on my case, which marked a new tendency for this Court in the "post 9-11" international context. It's politics, really, the topic of "terrorism" and who is deemed a terrorist all depends on who is today's "good guy" or "bad guy."
In a "hate letter" that I just received, I was "congratulated" because the international court confirmed that I was a terrorist. As ironical as it may sound, I'm not sure I mind being depicted as such by those who torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, or by those who bomb cities to the ground (or approve of it happening), or by those who, in general, act upon racist and classist feeling of "superiority" as compared to others. Since they gave me the denomination, well, who cares even.
It seems this jail stay will stretch out quite a bit more; however, the world continues to be much wider than the cement and iron that enclose prisoners, and with or without the physical presence of all of those who have been forced into this strange exile from the world, I'm convinced that many others continue working to make this world a better place.
My best to you,
Lori Berenson


See ya in TEN YEARS, bitch.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-08-11 10:33  

#4  Somebody forgot to bring the parents out for a loon parade. As I recall they can't seem to understand that their little precious went a mucking in somebody else's nation and did so with a very violent crowd. Sure the parents would see it quite different if Radar from Finland came to their backyard and joined up with white supremists who killed a few of their family members because of some murderous phsychological problems that apologists try to label as legitimate political expression. Wish we could have her citizenship revoked so she will never set foot here again. Who needs another idiot leftist terrorist in their state anyway. I for one don't.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-11 10:29  

#3  Crap, the sympathy meter's broken! (Tap, tap, tap)

Now where did Fred put the repair kit?
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2005-08-11 09:54  

#2   ...maintains she is a political prisoner... She is a political prisoner (whose politics became physical).

Posted by: dorf   2005-08-11 08:05  

#1  "But it was only a hobby! I was kinda like Patty Hearst... yeah, like Patty Hearst! I just wanted to try a little strange, y'know? But they, uh, they brainwashed me 'n stuff. Brainwashed me extra clean. My real name is Barbie! I just wanna be popular!"
Posted by: .com   2005-08-11 06:20  

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