Lori Berenson, an American woman who was jailed for 15 years in a Peruvian prison on terrorist charges, was granted parole in Lima on Tuesday.
[Court Officer]: (male, Spanish)
"I order the immediate release of she who is sentenced.”
Back in 1995, Berenson was convicted of helping a Marxist revolutionary group plan a failed attack on Congress during Peru's civil war in the 1980s and '90s. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison—and she’s spent most of the past 15 at a prison high in the Andes mountains.
On Wednesday, she was released on parole for good behavior.
Her family had always maintained that she was wrongfully convicted—and that she never took up arms during the civil war.
Berenson’s release comes just days before the Peruvian president’s scheduled trip to the U.S. to meet with Barack Obama.
