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Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier to return home after decades in US prison
Marchers carry a large painting of jailed Leonard Peltier during a march on the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Mass., November 22, 2001

INDIGENOUS activist Leonard Peltier will return home, nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

President Joe Biden commuted Mr Peltier’s sentence Monday, hours before leaving office.

It follows decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the United States government’s mistreatment of Native Americans.

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