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Lori Berenson is a US citizen currently being held as a political prisoner in Lima. After serving nearly five years in harsh Peruvian jails high in the Andes, her conviction of treason against Peru and her life sentence were overturned. In June 2001 she was cleared of charges of being a terrorist, but convicted of collaboration, and sentenced to twenty years in prison by a civilian terrorism court which, according to the U.S. State Department, "fails to meet international standards of openness, fairness, and due process."
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