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...Revolutionary Movement and sentenced her to 20 years. The court found her innocent of active militancy in the guerrilla group and of helping to procure international financing, which would have carried a life sentence. Berenson was jailed for life by a secret military tribunal in 1996 on charges of treason, but was granted a retrial on lesser charges last year. She declared the judgment "unjust" and lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court...
...process began under (former president Alberto) Fujimori, when relations with the United States were strained. There were obvious weaknesses and deficiencies in that first trial, including being charged with treason when she wasn't a citizen. But the retrial was a political move; it wasn't an offer extended to everyone else tried by hooded judges. So the view is that she wasn't treated worse; she was treated better...
...foreign film industry the Japanese controlled was China's, and among its top stars was Li Xianglan, born Yoshiko Yamaguchi. Moviegoers thought her Chinese, and in wartime films she became one of the most popular actresses, as well as a popular singer. Faced with postwar treason charges and possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well...
Jonathan Spence teaches Chinese history at Yale. His latest work, "Treason by the Book," has just been published by Viking...
...Captain Blood," with the pristine, unblemished Erroll Flynn in his first movie, radiant, animated by pure delight - Flynn before Hollywood and the bottle got him. Olivia DeHavilland: "You speak treason!" Flynn, with a flash of charm: "I hope I'm not obscure...