SHOTLIST ++DAY SHOTS++ 1. Interior of court room 2. Close-up of Shining Path defendants 3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Paula Ariza, spokesperson of General Council of the Judiciary (not pictured speaking) "Abimael Ruben Guzman Reinoso. The penalty of life imprisonment to be reviewed in 35 year's time, in accordance with that which is set down in the legislative ruling 921 and according to the penal law." 4. STILLS: Court camera image of defendants 5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Paula Ariza, spokesperson of General Council of the Judiciary (not pictured speaking) "Elena Albertina Iparraguirre Revoredo. The penalty of life imprisonment to be reviewed in 35 year's time, in accordance with that which is set down in the legislative ruling 921 and according to the penal law." 6. STILLS: Court camera image of defendants 7. Interior of court room FILE: 4 November 2004 8. Close-up Elena Iparraguirre and Abimael Guzman entering court 9. Abimael Guzman during the trial punching air Callao - 13 October 2006 10. Group of people in front of Callao naval base, remembering the massacre committed by Shining Path in Lucanamarca 11. Various of people holding placards FILE: Lima - 12 September 1992 12. Wide of arrest of Guzman FILE: Callao - 24 September 1992 13. Men removing cover of cell holding Guzman 14. Close-up of Guzman FILE: Callao - 4 November 2004 15. Defendants in court during first trial FILE: Lima - 16 July 1992 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 16. Various of bomb attack in Lima for which the Shining Path took responsibility STORYLINE Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose messianic communist vision inspired a 12-year rebellion that cost nearly 70,000 lives, was found guilty of aggravated terrorism by a civilian court and sentenced to life in prison on Friday. The 71-year-old former philosophy professor stood impassively with his hands crossed in front of his waist as a court clerk read the sentence Friday, ending a year long civilian retrial. Guzman's longtime lover and second-in-command Elena Iparraguirre, 59, also received a life sentence. Ten other co-defendants from his inner circle received sentences ranging from 24 to 35 years. After the sentences were announced, Guzman reached over and took Iparraguirre's hand and kissed it tenderly, then gave her a soft embrace. Asked for comment on the trial's outcome, Guzman's lawyer, Manuel Fajardo, told The Associated Press, the "sentence they have imposed on them constitutes a medal." He said "history will provide their verdict in the end," adding that the court's ruling was based not "strictly on the law, but rather on politics." Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Guzman was known to his followers as "Presidente Gonzalo," inspiring a cult like obedience among a Maoist guerrilla insurgency that grew to 10,000 armed fighters. Guzman did not flinch as the court clerk declared him guilty of "aggravated terrorism" against the Peruvian state shortly after 8 pm (0100 GMT), following a more than six-hour recitation of the trial evidence. He refused last month to speak in his own defence when offered a final chance during closing arguments to address the court. He has said very little during the course of the trial. "I am a revolutionary combatant and totally reject being a terrorist," Guzman declared as the trial, his third, began last year at the maximum-security naval base where he has been held since 1993. A secret military tribunal sentenced Guzman to life in prison in 1992, shortly after his capture in a Lima safehouse. But three years ago, Peru's top court ruled the closed military justice system unconstitutional. Another civilian tribunal, led by Judge Pablo Talavera, president of Peru's national anti-terrorism court, started the third trial in September 2005. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d1e4ed8a3607ad6da655cb8acde53bde Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 23 Jul 2015
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