Lori Berenson to be freed after 15 years in Peruvian prisons

cnn.com ^ | May 25, 2010 | CNN Wire Staff

[Free ThinkerNY]

Lima, Peru -- Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced Tuesday.

Berenson has served nearly 15 years of a 20-year sentence for aiding Peruvian rebels in a 1995 plot to overthrow Peru's congress.

Judge Jessica Leon Yarango made the announcement in a televised court hearing after Berenson's lawyer made the request, but did not specify when she would be released.

Berenson, 40, who last year gave birth in prison to a son, Salvador, has long maintained her innocence. Her original sentence of life in prison was reduced to 20 years on appeal.

[piasa]

Good. She's staying there.

LIMA - Lori Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents, will visit the United States as early as this weekend for the first time since her 1995 arrest.... -----Berenson to return to U.S. for 1st time after jail in Peru, Reuters, Dec. 17, 2011

[piasa]

I really, really hope that she doesn’t come back to this country so she can be featured on the usual liberal shows and presented as some sort of victim and/or heroine. She ought to stay put, raise her kid, keep her mouth shut and thank God that she’s still able to suck oxygen.

....uh.... guess what? She's coming back, supposedly for a "temporary visit" but with her little baby American citizen you can bet she will be back to "community organize" or work for an American university sooner or later.