Posted on 12/06/2004 3:16:26 AM PST by kattracks
Lori Berenson's parents raged last night against a human rights court ruling that will keep their activist daughter in prison for the next 11 years.Mark and Rhoda Berenson, who live in Gramercy Park, said the ruling marked "a tragic day for human rights in the Western Hemisphere and in the world."
They faulted the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Human Rights Court's decision to uphold a Peruvian court ruling that declared their activist daughter a Marxist terrorist who conspired in 1995 to overturn the Peruvian government.
Berenson was originally tried by a tribunal of hooded judges. It was later found she was railroaded and she was retried in 2001.
Her parents said the regional human rights panel should have followed the lead of the Washington-based Inter-American Human Rights Commission, which in 2002 voted, 7 to 0, "to condemn the system under which our daughter Lori Berenson was twice tried."
"We are greatly saddened, not only for Lori, but for all people wrongfully convicted and denied due process" who look to the human rights court for help, the Berensons wrote in a statement. "This system has failed."
Lori Berenson now faces 11 more years behind bars, with a release date November 2015, a few weeks after her 46th birthday.
Peru's President Alejandro Toledo praised the ruling.
News Staff
With News Wire Services
Originally published on December 6, 2004
F##k with the Bull you get the horns. She had no business sticking her nose in Peru's business.
These parents should have taught their daughter that there are consequences for your actions.
They taught her plenty. I've seen the website, Lori is a Red Diaper Doper Baby in the classical mold. But the nation owes her a debt of gratitude in one sense... Long may she wave (for another 11 years at any rate) as an object lesson to other would-be radical chic kiddies that they are not immune to the consequences of fooling around with terrorists.
Marxism 101
Terrorism 101
How to overthrown third world countries
Why I was mistreated in Peru: a memoir
She's a commie, but her parents live in Gramercy Park, one of the ritzyist neighborhoods in manhattan. The true cost of unearned wealth is arrogance and stupidity.
"How to overthrown third world countries"
Those that can't teach.LOL.
yeah, she howled at the moon while walking into court, links are out there somewhere... not a smart move ... probably do a FR search and find it here
She (or her daddy) actually has amazing media connections.
Every time she gets her panties in a bunch, it's front page news.
Who are these people?
bump
That they seem shocked that there might be a consequence is typical of these out of touch NYers.
Live with terrorist revolutionaries, do the time.
She claims that she didn't know that they were revolutionaries. Let me guess, she thought that they were Wal-Mart clerks. A little sanctimony can send you places you don't want to go.
I didn't think there are any real developments in this case, but I clicked the link anyway, because listening to the Berensons whining is a fine way to start out my week...
Expect a "Poor Laurie spends another Christmas in prison" story in the NYTimes any day now...
Oops. Laurie = Lori. Can't spell the little darling's name wrong, can we?
She was charged with plotting a hostage takeover of the Peruvian Congress. Here's what's even AP admits (Yahoo!News):
'She denied scrawling a coded floor plan of Congress. But Berenson admitted going there with journalist's credentials, accompanied by a photographer who was really the wife of a top guerrilla leader.
That same guerrilla leader 13 months later led a takeover of the Japanese ambassador's Lima residence. The rebels held 72 hostages for four months, demanding freedom for hundreds of imprisoned comrades. Berenson was No. 3 on the list. The rebels were killed in a daring commando raid that saved all but one of the hostages.
Berenson's best friends during most of her incarceration were MRTA inmates. Last year, she married Anibal Apari, 41, a paroled MRTA member whom she met when both were serving time at Yanamayo prison.
On Jan. 8, 1996, she made a televised declaration in defense of the now-dormant guerrilla group. With fists clenched at her sides, her face contorted in anger, she shouted: "There are no criminal terrorists in the MRTA. It is a revolutionary movement." .....'
AND the judges were hooded to protect them from a rash of assassinations admittedly carried out by the same " revolutionary movement".
RAILROADED? INNOCENT? HA!
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