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US political prisoner Leonard Peltier tests positive for Covid-19
Supporters are demanding hospitalisation and clemency for the longest-serving US political prisoner following the Native American rights activist’s diagnosis
LEONARD PELTIER, indigenous activist and the longest-serving political prisoner in the United States, has tested positive for Covid-19.
Peltier, who is imprisoned at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida, is 77 years old and has served more than 46 years for a crime that he and his supporters argue he did not commit.
Peltier suffers from diabetes and an aortic abdominal aneurysm, comorbidities that could become a death sentence for someone with Covid-19.
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