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Lori Berenson, an American who spent 20 years in a Peruvian prison for aiding leftist rebels, returned to the United States Thursday.
Ms. Berenson, 46, who arrived in Peru as a young idealist, completed a 20-year sentence, including more than 15 years in prison, for aiding leftist rebels.
By Andrea Zarate and William Neuman
Lori Berenson, an American who has completed a 20-year sentence for aiding a rebel group that planned to take members of Peru’s Congress hostage, could be deported as early as Wednesday.
Lori Berenson, who served more than 15 years in prison in Peru for aiding a rebel group, returned to Lima after a court-sanctioned holiday visit to see her family in Manhattan.
By William Neuman
Ms. Berenson returned to the United States for the first time since serving more than 15 years in a Peruvian prison on a terrorism charge.
By Anne Barnard
Lori Berenson said authorities claimed she lacked an immigration document and blocked her from leaving, for what was to have been her first visit to the United States since her arrest.
By Andrea Zarate and Elizabeth A. Harris
Lori Berenson was in prison for more than 15 years on a conviction of collaborating with a group that planned to attack the Peruvian Congress.
By Andrea Zarate
In 2010, Simon Romero interviewed Lori Berenson who spent more than a decade in a Peruvian prison for collaborating with a Marxist terrorist group.
DAVE RUMMEL and RICHARD TANNER
Freed after 15 years in prison in Peru for abetting terrorism, she is struggling to figure out what comes next.
By Jennifer Egan
Now released from prison, Lori Berenson shows a sense of regret, but a country may not be ready to forgive.
By Simon Romero
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