Peru high court upholds sentence against American

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

LIMA, Peru -- Peru's Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year prison sentence against American Lori Berenson for collaborating with leftist rebels to seize Congress, the presiding justice said Monday.

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