Editing Leonard Peltier

{{Infobox person|name=Leonard Peltier|birth_date=September 12, 1944|birth_place=Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota, [[USA|United States]]}}

'''Leonard Peltier''' is a Statesian political prisoner and member of the [[American Indian Movement]]. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] targeted him as part of [[COINTELPRO]] and he was sentenced to life in prison for the death of two FBI agents in 1975, despite the lack of any evidence showing his involvement in their deaths. He has been imprisoned for 46 years.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Stansfield Smith|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list|date=2022-08-09|url=https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/09/us-political-prisoners-list/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810130241/https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/09/us-political-prisoners-list/|archive-date=2022-08-10|retrieved=2022-08-11}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Statesian political prisoners]]