The Case of Leonard Peltier
Quick Facts
* Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American considered by Amnesty International, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Congress of American Indians, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rev. Jesse Jackson, amongst many other leaders, organizations and private citizens, to be a political prisoner who should be immediately released.
* Leonard Peltier was convicted for the deaths of two FBI agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota—home of the Oglala Lakota. Mr. Peltier has been in prison for over 30 years.
2007-01-29
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