{"id":119697,"date":"2025-02-18T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=119697"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:00:22","slug":"i-am-finally-going-home-leonard-peltier-released-from-prison-after-nearly-five-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/02\/18\/i-am-finally-going-home-leonard-peltier-released-from-prison-after-nearly-five-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I am finally going home’: Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly five decades"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Leonard<\/a>
Leonard Peltier is seen on the day of his release from federal prison in Florida on February 18, 2025. Photo by Angel White Eyes, Courtesy NDN Collective<\/figcaption>\r\n
‘I am finally going home’: Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly five decades<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, February 18, 2025<\/div>\r\n
By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nAfter spending nearly 50 years behind bars, American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier<\/a> is finally free.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nFollowing a grant of executive clemency from former president Joe Biden, Peltier was released from federal prison on Tuesday morning. He is now on his way to North Dakota, to the homelands of his tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians<\/a>.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cToday I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me but they never took my spirit!\u201d Peltier said upon his release from a U.S. government penitentiary in Florida<\/a>, according to NDN Collective<\/a>, a non-profit that advocated for his freedom.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cThank you to all my supporters throughout the world who fought for my freedom. I am finally going home,” Peltier said. \r\n

<\/P>\r\n“I look forward to seeing my friends, my family, and my community,” Peltier added. “It\u2019s a good day today.\u201d\r\n

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\u201cI am finally going home\u201d: Leonard Peltier was released from federal prison in Florida on the morning of Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

\u201cToday I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me but they never took my spirit!\u201d Peltier said after spending nearly 50 years behind bars. pic.twitter.com\/uhItD9T0NM<\/a><\/p>— indianz.com (@indianz) February 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>