FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2016 MEDIA CONTACT: Nidya Sarria, nsarria@aiusa.org Amnesty International USA Urges President Obama to Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier With New Advocacy Video (WASHINGTON, DC) – To mark his 72nd birthday today, Amnesty...
Published September 2, 2016 WASHINGTON — This week, President Obama commuted the sentences for 111 inmates, bringing the total commutations (325) he has announced this month to a record high—the most from any president in a single month. Just a few weeks ago,...
Leonard Peltier Is My Father and He Deserves Clemency by Kathy Peltier Peltier is the daughter of Leonard Peltier and lives in Los Angeles ‘My family has lived with this injustice for far too long’ When I first heard that President Obama had commuted the...