AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION!!

A while back I blogged about the release of activist Lori Berenson from a Peruvian prison after many years of unjustified incarceration.

I have just learned that she has been RETURNED TO PRISON! Sometimes this world is utterly insane and it is only the sane who can keep the madness in check. People like you and me.

Please read the email bulletin from Lori's parents (below) and call the White House as it instructs. It is the right thing to do and will cost you just 60 seconds of your life so that Lori may have hers back.

EMAIL FROM LORI'S PARENTS:

August 18, 2010

To All Friends and Supporters of Lori:

LORI BERENSON RE-INCARCERATED
Sadly and unjustly, Lori and Salvador have been returned to prison today. Right
after Lori was released on parole on May 27 the state prosecutor appealed the
judge's decision. On August 16 there was a hearing on the appeal and today,
August 18, there was a decision to annul the parole based on a procedural issue
that was not the responsibility of Lori or her defense. Upon hearing the resolution,
Lori turned herself over to the police. Until this procedural issue is resolved Lori
must remain in prison. During her move to the prison, broadcast live on TV, we
saw Salvador almost crushed by a hoard of cameraman and journalists, indifferent
to the well-being of a 15-month old baby.

After the procedural issue is resolved there will be another hearing where we
hope that parole will be sustained and she will be released once again. However,
this will take several months and there is no guarantee of parole. Over the years
hundreds of prisoners convicted of terrorism related crimes, Peruvians and
foreign nationals, have been released on parole. Lori has been the subject of a
media circus since she was released. Hardly a day has passed since May 25
without at least a dozen news items demonizing Lori. Politicians of every stripe
have tried to outdo each other in their condemnations, using the case of a US
citizen for political purposes.

URGENT CALL TO ACTION
Please call the White House hotline (202-456-1111) and when instructed ask for a
"hotline" operator and urge President Obama to immediately come to the aid of a
wrongfully incarcerated US citizen and a completely innocent child.

Many thanks for your continued support and concern.
Rhoda and Mark B.

CLICK HERE to read an earlier post about Lori Berenson.