Lori Berenson is an American woman sentenced in 1996 at the age of 26 to life in prison in Peru, convicted of abetting the "terrorist" M.R.T.A. organization. The M.R.T.A. was formed to oppose the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), a violent group desiring revolution and associated with the Communist Party of Peru. She asserts that while she knew her associates were members of the group, she did not know about their more violent activities. In 2003 she was given a new trial and put up for parole, which she received in 2010. She is now required to stay in Peru until 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06berenson-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all
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I used to think stories like that were totally insane and could never happen here, but that was before 9/11. I have no doubt that we would throw people in jail for a long time if we thought they collaborated with terrorists.
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