Exclusive: Native American Activist Leonard Peltier's Prison Plea for Long-Denied Clemency
December 13, 2012
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7:16Now PlayingExclusive: Native American Activist Leonard Peltier's Prison Plea for Long-Denied Clemency
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - During the holidays, the atmosphere of goodwill and mercy traditionally extends all the way to the nation's highest leaders, with presidents typically pardoning more prisoners than any other time in the year. On Friday, actors, musicians and activists are uniting to renew calls for clemency for one of America's most well-known and longest incarcerated prisoners: Leonard Peltier. The Native American activist and former member of the American Indian Movement was convicted of abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Peltier has long maintained his innocence; Amnesty International considers him a political prisoner who was not granted a fair trial. We air a never-before-broadcast video of Peltier from an interview by German journalist Claus Biegert.
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