{"id":483255,"date":"2022-01-24T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=199277"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:40:20","slug":"leonard-peltier-pleads-for-help-amid-constant-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/24\/leonard-peltier-pleads-for-help-amid-constant-covid-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Peltier Pleads For Help Amid Constant COVID Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind that\u00a0he shouldn\u2019t be in a federal prison\u00a0at all.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Peltier, the Native American rights activist whom the FBI put behind bars decades ago\u00a0without any evidence that he committed a crime, tells HuffPost that his facility\u2019s prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns and failure to provide at least some inmates with booster shots has left him \u2015 and likely others \u2015 unbearably isolated and preparing for death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in hell,\u201d Peltier said in a Friday statement, \u201cand there is no way to deal with it but to take it as long as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peltier, who is 77 and has serious health problems including diabetes and an abdominal aortic aneurysm, said \u201cfear and stress\u201d from the prison\u2019s intense coronavirus lockdowns are taking a toll on everyone, including staff.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/leonard-peltier-pleads-for-help-amid-constant-covid-lockdowns\/\">Leonard Peltier Pleads For Help Amid Constant COVID Lockdowns<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/leonard-peltier-pleads-for-help-amid-constant-covid-lockdowns\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind that\u00a0he shouldn\u2019t be in a federal prison\u00a0at all.<br \/>\nLeonard Peltier, the Native American rights activist whom the FBI put behind bars decades ago\u00a0without any evidence that he committed a crime, tells HuffPost that his facility\u2019s prolonged COVID&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,6,37767,1206,5720],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483256,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483255\/revisions\/483256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}