[news] Leonard Peltier Statement on John Graham's Extradition Hearing.

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Tuesday-Friday, 10 am, 800 Smythe St. BC Supreme Court. Today in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver the extradition hearing of John Graham began. The hearings are schedualed to take place for the next 2 weeks, though a decision could be made earlier. The US is seeking to extradite John Graham on an indictment for first degree murder of Anna Mae Aquash whose body was discovered in the remote badlands outside of Wanbli SD in 1976. Both John Graham and Anna Mae Aquash were members of the American Indian Movement, and were actively supporting Traditional Lakotas who were in the middle of a life and death struggle to protect sacred lands from uranium mining. In late 1976 Leonard Peltier, who was also active in AIM in SD in the 70's, was extradited from Vancouver, Canada for the murder of 2 FBI agents. He was convicted, and is still in prison despite the fact he has already served his time. It is now in court records that his extradition was based on fabricated evidence. Parallells between Peltier's and Graham's case, can be made.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/17738/0946