LIMA, PERU (BNO NEWS) -- The American terrorist Lori Berenson on Friday was granted release on parole for the second time by a Peruvian court after serving nearly 15 years in prison for her participation in a plot to kidnap Peruvian officials, local media reported.

According to the state-run Andina news agency, Berenson will be released from the women's prison on Saturday. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison and she qualified for parole after serving more than three quarters of her term.

Berenson was released on parole last May but in August a judge ordered her to return to jail as her parole was revoked due to the fact that she had not served the 75 percent of her sentence. Berenson turned herself to authorities and was incarcerated again.

At that moment authorities told her lawyer and husband, Anibal Apari, that the judge took into account studies and work for sentence reduction but a terrorism conviction indicates that the whole sentence must be served.

Berenson requested Peruvian authorities to rectify her parole and said she was repentant of her actions and considered herself a non-threat towards community members. However, authorities did not agree and was sent back to prison.

However, Judge Jessica Leon determined on Friday that the sentence reduction indeed apply in Berenson's case and thus she was granted parole, for the second time. Judge Leon said that her decision was based in the objective of the prison system of accelerating social reinsertion of the prisoner.

Berenson will move to Miraflores and will live in an apartment with Apari and their infant son. She will work as a translator and must present herself each month to a local court to sign the control registry.

The New York native was convicted of conspiring with the leftist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in a plot to kidnap members of the Peruvian Congress, and was sentenced to life in prison. Her sentence was reduced to twenty years by a panel of judges in 2001.

Berenson is the daughter of two New York college professors. She dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston to join left-wing radicals fighting for democracy in El Salvador.

She arrived in Peru in 1992, where she joined the MRTA, a Marxist rebel group named, fighting against government of Alberto Fujimori.

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