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