A court in Peru granted parole on Tuesday to American citizen Lori Berenson, who was locked up in Peru for 15 years for helping guerillas during the country’s civil war.

Berenson was sent behind bars in 1995 after being arrested for allegedly leading the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), which was an active leftist group in Peru during the 80s and the 90s.

The 40-year-old has never admitted to the charges filed against her, and her family has always insisted on her innocence.

Rhoda, her mother, said, “We are thrilled and so pleased that the Peruvian judge ruled that Lori has earned her conditional liberty, as they call it in Peru. She and her baby can now start a new life together.”

Berenson was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before she moved to Latin America as a human rights activist. She gave birth to a baby boy named Salvador last year.

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