"Peru prosecutor demands Berenson’s return to prison" by Carla Salazar, Associated Press | August 14, 2010
LIMA — A Peruvian prosecutor said yesterday that he will ask a court to revoke the parole of American activist Lori Berenson and send her back to prison to finish her 20-year sentence for aiding leftist rebels.
Julio Galindo, the government’s lead antiterrorism prosecutor, said he would tell the national criminal appeals court Monday that the 40-year-old New Yorker still poses a threat to society and that there are doubts about whether she has cut all links to the leftist rebel group Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
Berenson was granted parole on May 27 and wrote in a letter to Peru’s pardons commission that she wants to go home to the United States. She said that both she and her 1-year-old son need medical treatment.
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Galindo argued that she should be returned to prison for the remaining five years of her sentence. “I don’t think anyone can guarantee that someone convicted of terrorism isn’t going to re-enter this world of terrorism,’’ Galindo said at a news conference....
When she was arrested in November 1995 with the wife of the group’s leader, prosecutors said Berenson was helping plot a takeover of Peru’s Congress. The alleged plot was thwarted in a gun battle at a rebel hideout that Berenson was convicted of having rented.
Berenson was convicted of treason by a military court in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison. But after an intense campaign by her parents and pressure from the US government, she was retried in a civilian court.
The U.S. government sure has some nerve defending a terrorist, huh?
In 2001, it convicted her of the lesser crime of terrorist collaboration and sentenced her to 20 years.
Under the terms of her parole, she is required to remain in Peru until the sentence ends in November 2015 — unless President Alan Garcia decides to commute the sentence.
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Seeing as Garcia is our guy I would bet on the commutation.
And does Madame Secretary ever sound like a broken record!
Then again, you know how drunks repeat themselves.
