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Biden Grants Clemency to Indigenous Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier

HeadlineJan 21, 2025

Joe Biden granted clemency Monday to longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier in a surprise move in the final minutes of his presidency. Under terms of his release from federal prison, the 80-year-old Peltier must live under house arrest. We’ll have more on this later in the broadcast with the NDN Collective’s Nick Tilsen, who helped lead the campaign for Peltier’s clemency.

As he was exiting office, Biden also pardoned five more members of his own family, saying they did nothing wrong but that he feared reprisal by the Trump administration.

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