Shining Path founder Guzman faces second life sentence in Peru


  • World
  • Wednesday, 01 Mar 2017

Former Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman attends trial at a high security naval prison in Lima February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

LIMA (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Peru asked a federal judge on Tuesday to hand down a life sentence to Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Maoist-inspired rebel group the Shining Path, for allegedly ordering a bombing in Lima that killed 25 people in 1992.

Guzman is already serving a life sentence for having led the Shining Path's attempt to overthrow the state.

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