[Ppnews] Lori Berenson blocked from leaving Peru

[Political Prisoner News]

December 17, 2011 New York Times

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/17/MNL01MDS49.DTL

Lima, --

Peru - Lori Berenson, the New Yorker paroled last year after serving more
than 15 years in prison here on a terrorism conviction, was blocked from
leaving the country for what was to have been her first visit home since
her arrest, she said Saturday.

A Peruvian court had granted her permission to visit her family in New
York City for the holidays, but when she and her young son arrived at the
airport Friday night, they were turned away by immigration authorities.

"They said I needed a document for immigration, and I didn't have it,"
Berenson said, "so they wouldn't let me leave the country." It was unclear
what document immigration authorities wanted. Berenson said she had all of
the documents required for travel.

Berenson was freed on parole last year but had been required to remain in
Peru until the end of her 20-year sentence for collaborating with a rebel
group in 1995.



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