Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement. Many in Indian Country see this executive clemency as a significant victory in a decades-long campaign for his release.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of
After nearly 50 years of incarceration, Native American political activist Leonard Peltier has been released from prison. Former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence in January before leaving office.
Not many people know who Leonard Peltier is. He is a Native American activist who was in prison for 50 years and was recently released from a Florida federal prison.
After nearly five decades of incarceration, Leonard Peltier returns to his Turtle Mountain homeland following President Biden's clemency decision, greeted by family and community members in an emotional homecoming.
including some who waved flags saying “Free Leonard Peltier,” were elated. “We never thought he would get out,” said Ray St. Clair, a member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota ...
His supporters outside the prison, including some who waved flags saying “Free Leonard Peltier," were elated. “We never thought he would get out,” said Ray St. Clair, a member of the White ...
The Chippewa activist was greeted by more than 100 supporters and family members who gathered at the border of the Turtle Mountain Reservation
As Leonard Peltier is set to be released from federal prison, Native activists are reflecting on nearly five decades of work to win his freedom.
Peltier was ... be subjected even to house arrest. “We still have work to do,” his lead lawyer, Jenipher Jones, said. “It is our proposition that any detention of Leonard is unlawful.”