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20th December 2004, 03:44
On December 2, 2004 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights upheld the conviction of Lori Berenson, an American journalist and human-rights activist whose case has been championed by Amnesty International as well as the UNHCR's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Lori is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Peru on charges of collaborating with the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru.
In so doing, the Court reversed the unanimous decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights which, on April 3, 2002, had declared that Lori's civilian trial had violated her right to due process, that her rights under the American Convention on Human Rights needed to be completely restored, that she be compensated for her wrongful suffering, and that Peru bring its anti-terrorism laws into compliance with the American Convention on Human Rights. Indeed, the court's decision contradicted its own preliminary decision as of November 10, which Monroy Galvez (the ad-hoc judge representing Peru) stated had called for Lori's release. The decision followed two weeks of intense lobbying by Peruvian officials and does not bode well for enforcement of international standards of human rights in the future.
from Indymedia.org
www.freelori.org
In so doing, the Court reversed the unanimous decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights which, on April 3, 2002, had declared that Lori's civilian trial had violated her right to due process, that her rights under the American Convention on Human Rights needed to be completely restored, that she be compensated for her wrongful suffering, and that Peru bring its anti-terrorism laws into compliance with the American Convention on Human Rights. Indeed, the court's decision contradicted its own preliminary decision as of November 10, which Monroy Galvez (the ad-hoc judge representing Peru) stated had called for Lori's release. The decision followed two weeks of intense lobbying by Peruvian officials and does not bode well for enforcement of international standards of human rights in the future.
from Indymedia.org
www.freelori.org