[www-features] POSTED: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Affirms Lori Berenson's 20-year Sentence

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> HEADER: <a href="http://peru.indymedia.org/">PERU</A>: HUMAN RIGHTS
>
> TITLE: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Affirms Lori Berenson's
> 20-year Sentence
>
> IMAGE URL: http://www.freelori.org/art/limaportrait_small.jpg
>
> BODY: On December 2, 2004 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights upheld
> the conviction of Lori Berenson, an American journalist and human-rights
> activist whose case has been championed by Amnesty International as well
> as the UNHCR's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.  Lori is currently
> serving a 20-year prison sentence in Peru on charges of collaborating with
> the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru.  In so doing, the Court
> reversed the unanimous decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human
> Rights which, on April 3, 2002, had declared that Lori's civilian trial
> had violated her right to due process, that her rights under the American
> Convention on Human Rights needed to be completely restored, that she be
> compensated for her wrongful suffering, and that Peru bring its
> anti-terrorism laws into compliance with the American Convention on Human
> Rights. Indeed, the court's decision contradicted its own preliminary
> decision as of November 10, which Monroy Galvez (the ad-hoc judge
> representing Peru) stated had called for Lori's release.  The decision
> followed two weeks of intense lobbying by Peruvian officials and does not
> bode well for enforcement of international standards of human rights in
> the future.
>
> LINKS:
> <a href="http://peru.indymedia.org">Indymedia Peru</a>
> <a href="http://www.freelori.org">Committee to Free Lori Berenson</a>
>
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