Join Amnesty International and ask President Barack Obama to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier

  • by: Brian O'Keefe
  • recipient: President Barack Obama and Director of Federal Bureau of Prisons Charles F. Samuels

Leonard Peltier, an Anishinabe-Lakota Native American, is a federal prisoner serving two consecutive life sentences for the murders of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in 1975. Amnesty International (AI) has studied his case extensively over many years and remains seriously concerned about the fairness of proceedings leading to his trial and conviction.
Leonard Peltier’s most recent petition for release on parole was denied by the US Parole Commission in 2009, and AI understands that he is not eligible for consideration for parole again until 2024. Given that all available legal remedies have been exhausted and that that Leonard Peltier has now spent over 39 years in prison and is in poor health, AI believes that the US authorities should order Leonard Peltier’s release from prison on humanitarian grounds and in the interests of justice.

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