[Imc] Fwd: Press release for Feb 6

[Robert Dunn]

>From: "LPDC" <lpdc at idir.net>
>To: prorobert8 at hotmail.com
>Subject: Press release for Feb 6
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:50:07 -0600
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Please forward this release to your local media on February 5.  If you are
>organizing an event, you can add the "what, who, and where" to this release
>and send it out sooner.  Thank you!
>
>In Solidarity,
>LPDC
>
>
>
>(FOR FEBRUARY 6, 2001 RELEASE)
>
>
>  Peltier Denied Clemency
>Advocates Still Committed to Seeking Release
>
>February 6 Marks 25 Years of Imprisonment for Leonard Peltier
>
>CONTACT:
>Gina Chiala, Co-Coordinator, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
>
>
>Still outraged over Clinton's denial of clemency to Leonard Peltier, 
>Peltier
>advocates across the nation and globe are meeting today to plan new
>strategies to free the man they see as a political prisoner, wrongly
>imprisoned for 25 years. "Leonard Peltier never received a fair trial, and
>the appellate process has failed him.  More than a reasonable doubt has 
>been
>cast on his guilt, and yet a quarter century later, he languishes behind
>bars.  By denying clemency, Bill Clinton failed to fulfill his duty to
>correct this injustice.  He also betrayed the Native citizens of this 
>land,"
>said Ernie Stevens Jr. of the National Congress of American Indians.
>
>Despite the defeat, Peltier and supporters say they will not give up.  They
>plan to launch a major campaign calling for the declassification of the 
>6000
>documents pertaining to the Peltier case still being withheld by the FBI.
>Supporters believe these documents contain evidence that will further 
>expose
>misconduct in the gaining of Leonard Peltier's conviction. Their 
>disclosure,
>they say, could lead to Peltier's acquittal.  12,000 FBI documents were
>released in the early 1980's pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act
>lawsuit.  Among them was a ballistic test reflecting Peltier's innocence 
>and
>prompting the Eighth Circuit to conclude: "There is a possibility that the
>jury would have acquitted Leonard Peltier had the records and data
>improperly withheld from the defense been available to him in order to
>better exploit and reinforce the inconsistencies casting strong doubts upon
>the government's case."
>
>Those calling for Leonard Peltier's release include Amnesty International,
>Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the National Congress of American Indians, Coretta
>Scott King, several members of Congress, and the Kennedy Memorial Center 
>for
>Human Rights among others.
>
>*Leonard Peltier was a prominent member of the American Indian Movement. He
>was convicted for the murder of two FBI agents killed
>during a 1975 shoot-out, which occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian 
>reservation
>in the midst of intense, local political strife.    In 1985 the US Attorney
>admitted and later established that he could not prove who shot the agents.
>
>
>Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
>PO Box 583
>Lawrence, KS 66044
>785-842-5774
>www.freepeltier.org
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