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Peru: We Will Ignore Int’l Court Ruling on Lori Berenson

HeadlineNov 22, 2004

The Peruvian government has said it will not release the New Yorker Lori Berenson from prison even if it’s ordered to do so by the Inter-American Human Rights Court. The legal arm of the Organization of American States, is scheduled to deliberate her case beginning on Wednesday. The 34-year-old Berenson has been jailed for nearly a decade on charges of helping the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. She was originally sentenced to life in prison by hooded military judges. A retrial reduced the sentence to 20 years.

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