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SENTENCED. LORI BERENSON, 31, American citizen convicted on charges of colluding with guerrillas to take the Peruvian Congress hostage; to 20 years in prison; in Lima, Peru. The M.I.T. dropout, sentenced to life in prison in 1996, sought and received a new trial. After the verdict, she defiantly told the court, "I consider this an unjust sentence...
...Then, four days later, the reporters started calling, wanting Fanny's reaction to news of her husband's kidnapping from a place she'd never heard of in the Philippines. It didn't make sense to the 35-year-old mother of three. Her Peruvian-born husband seals pools and outdoor decks for a living, and likes coming home to mow the lawn with their three-year-old son trailing behind. When he he had been missing for several days, Fanny had been worried enough to file a missing person's report with the Corona police, suggesting they check...
...MRTA internal document about the Brady plan. Her explanations didn't seem particularly convincing. Her explanation for the safe house was that she rented it, then sublet it; she didn't know the woman was an MRTA person, the sketch had no terrorist purposes and so on. From a Peruvian point of view, this evidence against the background of the fact that she had worked for a leader of the (leftist guerrilla movement) Farabundo Mart? Front for National Liberation in El Salvador didn't look good. Her past painted her as somebody quite likely to be connected with a guerilla...
...Peruvian government agree to a second trial...
...look to Peruvians like a legal lynching, and this is a country where there is experience with that. They know what that looks like, and it didn't strike them as one of those. This is all happening in an era in which people are very aware of international standards and the possibility of unfair treatment. Human Rights Watch's American division has not singled out her case, and the Peruvian human rights group has not taken up her cause...