Father: Paroled Activist Lori Berenson Can Leave Peru

LIMA, Peru – The father of paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson says Peruvian migration officials have given her permission to leave the country with her toddler son to spend the holidays with her family in New York City.

Mark Berenson tells The Associated Press by phone from New York that his daughter called with the news on Monday afternoon.

Despite a court's approval to leave the country for the first time since her 1995 arrest, authorities barred Berenson from boarding a flight to New York on Friday night.

When she was paroled last year, Lori Berenson had served three-quarters of a 20-year prison term for aiding leftist rebels.