Leonard Peltier, Indigenous activist in prison for 47 years over FBI killings, has parole hearing

FBI chief condemns Peltier, 79, who denies killing agents on Pine Ridge reservation in 1975, as remorseless killer'

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has served nearly 50 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents, was due to have his first parole hearing since 2009 on Monday, his lawyer said.

Peltier, 79, has maintained that he did not kill the FBI special agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Advocates, including figures such as the late Nelson Mandela and a former prosecutor and judge involved in his case, have long said he should be freed because of what they call legal irregularities in his trial.