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Subject: Kansas City Star reports on Leonard Peltier's visit with Mitterrand
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:36:18 -0500
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Widow of French president Francois Mitterrand plans to visit Leonard Peltier
at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth
By MARK WIEBE The Kansas City Star
Date: 04/09/99 22:15
In a show of support for imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard
Peltier, Danielle Mitterrand, widow of former French President Francois
Mitterrand, plans to visit Peltier at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth.
The announcement comes at a time when Peltier and his supporters say the
prison staff is not adequately treating him for lockjaw.
Mitterrand's visit is tentatively scheduled April 30. She also intends to
visit Mumia Abu Jamal, a death-row inmate in Pennsylvania who says he was
wrongly convicted of killing a police officer. An assistant for Mitterrand,
president of the human-rights organization France Libertes in Paris,
confirmed the visit Friday. Mitterrand may be accompanied by Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu, who is to appear April 30 in Lawrence on
behalf of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.
Mitterrand founded France Libertes in 1986 and has been active in several
human-rights campaigns, including efforts to improve the plight of Kurds in
Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Peltier, 54, is serving two consecutive life
sentences for the slayings of two FBI agents on a South Dakota reservation
in 1975. He has long said he did not commit the killings. Peltier's recent
plea for better medical care prompted supporters to flood the Federal Bureau
of Prisons in Washington with e-mail, faxes, letters and phone calls.
According to a Bureau of Prisons official, the barrage began nearly six
months ago and tapered off in the last three weeks. A small percentage of
the messages claimed to be from people waging hunger strikes, the official
said.
Peltier's medical condition also attracted the attention of the European
Parliament, which passed a resolution Feb. 11 calling for him to be
transferred to a hospital for "appropriate medical treatment." The
Parliament also restated its plea for the United States to grant Peltier
clemency.
Gina Chiala, a volunteer for the Peltier Defense Committee in Lawrence, said
Peltier has requested treatment from a physician at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn. Chiala said Peltier had two surgeries in 1996 at the U.S.
Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield. Peltier told the
Defense Committee that, rather than improve his condition, the surgeries
made it worse. Peltier now refuses to return to Springfield for more
treatment, Chiala said.
A written statement from the Bureau of Prisons says that a "thorough review
of inmate Peltier's medical record reveals he is being provided appropriate
medical attention addressing both his medical complaints and his medical
condition." According to the statement, Peltier's second surgery at
Springfield, in May 1996, re-established "good opening and closing of the
mandible (the lower jaw)." A third surgery was scheduled for October 1996,
but Peltier refused it.
Chiala said Peltier, whose lockjaw stems from a tetanus infection he had as
a child, refused the surgery because the previous two had neither alleviated
his pain nor improved his ability to chew food. According to Chiala, Peltier
suffers constant headaches from his condition and can open his mouth little
more than a centimeter.
To reach Mark Wiebe, Leavenworth County reporter for The Star, call (913)
371-1810 or send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
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