News

WASHINGTON ― Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for nearly 50 years, is turning 80 on Thursday ― and Amnesty International USA is appealing to Joe Biden to ...
WASHINGTON — Amnesty International is appealing to President Joe Biden to use his final weeks in office to “rectify a case of injustice” by releasing 80-year-old Native American rights ...
Protesters carry a large painting of jailed indigenous activist Leonard Peltier during a Plymouth, Mass., march. (Steven Senne/Associated Press) The FBI had urged former President Joe Biden not to ...
the exhaustion of all his legal avenues for appeal, the amount of time he has already served, his continued maintenance of innocence along with his chronic health issues, Amnesty International ...
Before leaving office, President Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison since his conviction for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Peltier is a long-time leader of the First Nations movement in the US. Amnesty International is highlighting the case of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier in this Year of the ...
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who spent half a century in prison after being convicted of killing two FBI agents, was released from a federal penitentiary in Florida on Tuesday.
RAPID CITY, S.D.? The former wife of AIM co-founder Dennis Banks told jurors Wednesday that she was with Anna Mae Aquash and others when Leonard Peltier bragged about killing two FBI agents in 1975.
SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his ...
Create an account or log in to save stories. The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival began Wednesday night. The documentary “Free Leonard Peltier" opened the festival with three ...
“Free Leonard Peltier,” the opening night feature for the 44th Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival sold out three theaters at The Main Cinema, and for good reason. The powerful and timely ...