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Peru: Lori Berenson to Be Released Monday

Peruvian officials say convicted rebel collaborator Lori Berenson will go free on Monday.

The 40-year-old New York woman was paroled in May after serving nearly 15 years in prison.

But a court reincarcerated Berenson in August on a technicality and she took along her now 18-month-old son.

The same judge who initially paroled Berenson reinstated it Friday.

Berenson cannot leave Peru until her 20-year sentence ends - unless Peru's president commutes it.

Prisons spokeswoman Janet Sanchez said Saturday that the agency was still awaiting the documents needed to release her.

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