Arrest of MRTA members including Lori Berenson
Miguel Rincón Rincón, Lori Berenson and other MRTA members arrested. The arrest of U.S. citizen Lori Berenson sparks international controversy over her involvement with MRTA.
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Capture of Miguel Rincón Rincón and Lori Berenson
Miguel Rincón Rincón, an important member of the MRTA leadership, is captured together with Lori Berenson. The existence of a plan to take over Congress is discovered. Both are sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence is issued on January 11, 1996. Rincón Rincón is imprisoned in the Callao Naval Prison.
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Life sentence for Miguel Rincon Rincon and Lori Berenson
A faceless military judge of the Supreme Council of Military Justice sentences, in first instance, MRTA leader Miguel Rincón Rincón and American Lori Berenson to life imprisonment for treason. The U.S. State Department protests the life sentence given to U.S. citizen Lori Berenson. The sentence was issued after her capture …
