WORLD : Maoist Editor Arrested in Peru
<i> From Times wire services</i>
LIMA, Peru —
The acting editor of a newspaper which openly supports Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebels has been arrested, Peruvian police said today.
Police arrested acting Editor Janet Talavera of the weekly paper El Diario, Sendero Luminoso’s main propaganda organ, as she left its Lima offices, charging her with “apology for terrorism” under the new anti-guerrilla law.
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