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Biden commutes sentence for indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents

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Leonard Peltier was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.

The fight for his freedom is entangled with the Indigenous rights movements.

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