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THE US Communist Party gave its backing on Tuesday to a new campaign urging outgoing President Barack Obama to pardon political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
The party’s social media co-ordinator wrote to supporters asking them to join an Amnesty International letter-writing campaign for Mr Peltier’s release before Mr Obama leaves office on January 20.
Anishinabe-Lakota Native American Mr Peltier has spent more than 40 years in jail on two consecutive life terms for the alleged killing of two FBI agents.
He was a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1975, when he was involved in a confrontation in which the two agents were shot dead.
Mr Peltier has always maintained his innocence. His supporters say there are serious doubts about the process leading to his trial and conviction.
In 2009, the US Parole Commission rejected his petition for release, despite noting: “The prosecution has conceded the lack of any direct evidence that you personally participated in the executions of two FBI agents.”
