AIM appeals Peltier case to Special Rapporteur http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/05/aim-requests-special-rapporteur-to.html

American Indian Movement delegates are meeting with Mr. James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 10th Session. AIM is appealing to the Special Rapporteur in the case of Leonard Peltier.Lenny Foster, Navajo spiritual adviser to Native inmates, released a statement to the United Nations as part of the US Periodic Review on Human Rights in March, 2010. Foster said Peltier, Ojibwa-Lakota from Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, is presently detained at the US Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Penn. 

"I request his petition for Executive Clemency is approved by the United States Justice Department and President Barack Obama," Foster told the UN. "He has been incarcerated for the last thirty four years. His case illustrates the discrimination and racist attitudes and human rights violations within the United States criminal justice system.

His recent denial of his petition to be released on parole shows the biased and skewed decisions based on lack of compliance for the due process of his release on parole by the U.S. Parole Commission. He satisfactorily met the criteria for release on parole after thirty years of incarceration and assured by the Parole Act of 2005," Foster said.The delegation meeting with the Special Rapporteur is Clyde Bellecourt, head of delegation and co-founder of American Indian Movement (AIM) with Antonio Gonzales, Lenny Foster, William "Jimbo" Simmons and Lamoine La Pointe. AIM member Foster is representing the International Indian Treaty Council.