Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 12. September 1944 |
Geburtsort | Belcourt, North Dakota, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/peoplefaqscom/peoplefaqs.com/public/wp-content/plugins/peoplefaqs-wp-helpers-plugin/classes/apis/DeeplAPI.php on line 39 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/peoplefaqscom/peoplefaqs.com/public/wp-content/plugins/peoplefaqs-wp-helpers-plugin/classes/apis/DeeplAPI.php on line 40 Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and militant member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who, following a controversial trial, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment and has been imprisoned since 1977 (currently 45 years, 7 months). |
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
