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February 18, 2025

Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years in Prison
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Longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has
been released from a Florida prison today after spending nearly 50 years
behind bars. For decades, Peltier, who is 80 years old, has maintained
his innocence over the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in a shootout on
the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Last month, President Biden
commuted Peltier's life sentence to serve the remainder of his time
under house arrest.


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