Christine Lamont
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Christine Lamont is a Canadian woman who spent several years in a Brazilian prison after being convicted of participating in the political kidnapping and six-day underground confinement of Brazilian Abílio dos Santos Diniz in 1989. Lamont and her Canadian boyfriend, David Spencer, were initially sentenced to 28 years each for their involvement in the kidnapping, which was intended to raise money for Sandanista guerillas in El Salvador, but were released and deported back to Canada in 1996 after Lamont confessed to the crime.
Before the confession, Lamont and Spencer had broad popular support among the Canadian press and public, many of believed that Lamont and Spencer had been innocent victims of a corrupt Brazilian justice system.
[edit] See also
- 1996 article by Isabel Vincent (the second half of the article discusses the kidnapping and Canadian press coverage)
- Kidnappers should not be heros (from the North Shore News, 1998)
[edit] Further reading
- Isabel Vincent, See no evil. Reed Books Canada, 1996.
- Caroline Mallan, Wrong time, wrong place? Key Porter Books, 1996.
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