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 LIMA, Peru (AP) - The lawyer for the founder of Peru's Shining Path rebel group said Saturday he is appealing the leader's life prison sentence for terrorist acts committed during the 12-year insurgency that cost nearly 70,000 lives.
Abimael Guzman, 71, was found guilty of aggravated terrorism by a civilian court and sentenced Friday, ending a year-long retrial.
His attorney, Manuel Fajardo, said he is appealing the sentence because his client was a part of a revolutionary group that was at war with the government in the 1980s and 1990s.
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