Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a citizen of the Anishinabe & Dakota/Lakota Nations who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976. To the international community, Leonard’s case is a stain on America’s human rights record. Amnesty International considers Leonard a “political prisoner” who should be “immediately & unconditionally released”. To many Indigenous Peoples, Leonard Peltier is an iconic symbol and a lifelong activist fighting the abuse & repression of Native Americans that have endured for so long.
Tribal Nations, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, the 14th Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, various Nobel Peace Laureates, former FBI agents, and even the former U.S. Attorney, James Reynolds, whose office handled the prosecution, have called for Leonard Peltier’s release. He has been imprisoned since 1977.
As of December 2024, Leonard Peltier is 80 years old (born on September 12, 1944). He has been incarcerated for 47 years, making his imprisonment one of the longest for a political prisoner in the United States.
As of March 2024, Leonard is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman, in Florida.
Currently the only way for Leonard’s freedom is through Presidential commutation of his sentence, clemency, parole, or compassionate release.
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