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Lori Berenson Returning to the United States After 20 Years in Peru; Hear Rare 1999 Prison Interview
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36:44Now PlayingThe once-imprisoned U.S. activist Lori Berenson is returning home from Peru nearly two decades after being tried by a hooded military judge. She had been barred from leaving the country until her entire 20 year sentence ended. The Associated Press reports she feared being mobbed upon her arrival and therefore did not disclose her travel plans.
Democracy Now! was the first to interview Berenson and broadcast her voice to the public after she was sentenced, and has long covered her case.
Berenson is a journalist and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was convicted in 1996 of helping the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement plan an assault on the Peruvian Congress. Berenson was tried by a hooded military judge, and prosecutors used secret evidence against her. For three years, she was held in the frigid Yanamayo prison in the Andes mountains in an unheated, open-air cell without running water, where her hands swelled like boxing gloves from the cold, and she developed gastric and eye problems. She was later transferred to the warmer Socabaya prison, but she was held in complete isolation there for many months. She ultimately served three-quarters of her 20-year prison term.
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