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Leonard Peltier: A Political Prisoner in the USA By David Starr Leonard Peltier has been in prison for 46 years, almost a half century. There are many who have called for Peltier’s release, such as Congressional representatives, the National Congress of American Indians, Nelson Mandela, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, the Dalai-Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Jesse Jackson, and millions worldwide. But the so-called wheels of justice in the United States are not moving. Many say Peltier is not guilty of shooting two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in S. Dakota in 1975. There were, e.g., witnesses who claimed that Peltier was the shooter, but later recanted their testimonies, revealing that the FBI intimidated and coerced them into saying that Peltier was the one who shot the agents. There was the withholding of evidence that could have proved Peltier was innocent. There was false “evidence” presented in court. And there were documents that were not