January 4, 2006
For Immediate Release
To: All media outlets AA
Leonard Peltier's Thirtieth Anniversary!
February 6, 2006 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Leonard
Peltier's illegal extradition to the United States from Canada
using coerced and fraudulent testimony. This was the beginning
of his odyssey that resulted in his false conviction for the
June 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation
in Federal Court in Fargo, North Dakota in 1977.
During his thirty years imprisonment Leonard, has won acclaim
and support across the globe. Amnesty International, the leading
human rights in the world, considers Leonard a "prisoner of
conscious" and calls for his "immediate release." His prison
writings "My Life is My Sun Dance" has been called by one
America's leading historians-Howard Zinn-"An accusation against
monstrous injustice, a beautiful expression of a man's soul,
demanding release." South African human rights activist
Archbishop Desmond Tutu called it "A deeply moving and very
disturbing story of a gross miscarriage of justice."
Recent revelations of the Bush administration's widespread
spying of the American people should remind many of similar
activities by the federal government in the 1960s and 1970s
against members of the civil right and anti-war movements and
the American Indian Movement, of which, Leonard Peltier was an
active member.
On February 6, 2006, supporters of Leonard Peltier around the
globe will be hold rallies, public forums and film showings to
protest his thirty years in prison.
For more information please contact:
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: Email
info@leonardpeltier.org
Phone - 915 - 533-6655
