{"id":6312,"date":"2024-09-12T19:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2024-09-12T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T23:16:37","slug":"amnesty-international-calls-on-joe-biden-to-grant-clemency-to-u-s-political-prisoner-leonard-peltier-on-his-80th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/amnesty-international-calls-on-joe-biden-to-grant-clemency-to-u-s-political-prisoner-leonard-peltier-on-his-80th-birthday-12092024\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International calls on Joe Biden to grant clemency to U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier on his 80th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amnesty International is calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to grant clemency to Indigenous leader and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who turns 80 years old today, Thursday, September 12th.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard has spent nearly 50 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. &nbsp;Peltier has always maintained his innocence over the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. &nbsp;His conviction was riddled with irregularities and prosecutorial misconduct. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to President Biden, Amnesty International USA wrote: \u201cYou have the opportunity to rectify a case that has long troubled human rights advocates and Indigenous Peoples worldwide.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vigils and other actions are being held today in Washington, D.C., and around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International is calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to grant clemency to Indigenous leader and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who turns 80 years old today, Thursday, September 12th.&nbsp; Leonard&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6314,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions\/6314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}