Resolution Concerning Executive Clemency for
Leonard Peltier
WHEREAS Leonard Peltier an Anishinabe/Lakota,
has been imprisoned for 19 years in the United
States;
WHEREAS Peltier_s defense has brought proof of
FBI misconduct and the illegal fabrication of
false evidence, coercion of witnesses, perjury,
which constitute the violation of Peltier_s
constitutional rights;
WHEREAS his third appeal to get a new and fair
trial was denied by the 8th Circuit Court of
Appeal in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1993; and his
only chance for freedom today is the granting
of executive clemency by the president of the
United States of America;
WHEREAS Leonard Peltier was declared to be a
symbol of the Campaign on 500 years of
Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance at
the Continental Meeting in Guatemala in 1991
and since gained recognition of indigenous
peoples_ movements from around the world during
the UN-International Year of Indigenous Peoples
in 1993;
WHEREAS Leonard Peltier is known worldwide as
one of the longest held political prisoners and
is supported internationally by:
55 members of the US-Congress, 50 members of
the Canadian Parliament, 67 members of the
Italian Parliament, 48 members of the
Parliament of the Netherlands, 312 French
municipalities and communities, 165 presidents
of Tribal Councils in the US, US-Senator Daniel
Inouye, Senator Paul Wellstone, former
Appellant Court Judge Gerald Heaney, former US
Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Nobel Peace
Prize Winners: Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nelson
Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Amnesty International
and more than 26 million people in North
America, totalling nearly 50 million people
worldwide;
THEREFORE we, the participants of the 10th
European Meeting of Support Groups of North
American Indigenous PeopleS gathered in Les
Geneveyes sur Coffrane near Neuchatel,
Switzerland, from July 30th to August 1st,
1995, including 14 Indigenous representatives
and 25 organizations from Austria, Belgium,
England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,
Poland, United States of America and Canada,
urge in the name of justice and human rights
the granting of executive clemency for Leonard
Peltier by President Clinton, or at the very
least, the granting of a new and fair trial.
MOVED BY: Michael Eckhardt, Leonard Peltier
Defence Committee, Kansas, USA
SECONDED BY: Robert Glattau, Gesellschaft fur
bedrohte Volker - Austria, Leonard Peltier
Support Group Austria
PASSED: Unanimously
Chairperson of the Meeting
DATE: August 1st, 1995