Is It Time to Free Native American Activist Leonard Peltier?
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Newsweek
May 19, 2016

“The first time I met with U.S. prisoner Leonard Peltier, he was planning his funeral.

“The 71-year-old has lived behind barbed wire and concrete walls for more than half of his life, cemented in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“As he wages a four-decade legal battle in a case clouded with conflicting testimony, political influence and doubt, he also struggles with declining health, including diabetes, a heart condition, multiple jaw surgeries and loss of vision and motor function due to a stroke.”

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