Activist Lori Berenson to Return to Prison

WNYC News | Aug 18, 2010

A Peruvian court has reversed the parole of Lori Berenson. The New Yorker was released earlier this year, after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a militant rebel group. Berenson's husband and lawyer, Anibal Apari, said she turned herself in to police after the court decision was announced.

The ruling by the criminal appeals court was announced two days after Berenson appeared at a hearing, apologized for her crime, and asked the court to uphold her parole. Berenson told the court Monday that she regrets her actions, and hoped to focus on raising her 15-month-old son, Salvador.

She has acknowledged collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, but said she was never a member of the group nor involved in any violent acts.

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