Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been innocence in killing two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released from a federal prison in Florida on Tuesday morning. Previously, former President Joe Biden promised two life imprisonment.

Leniency allowed Peltier, who had been declining health for years, to have the rest of his days on the family ban.

Peltier was transferred to his birthplace in North Dakota, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain band in Chippewa and will be welcomed by the celebrations to “re-establish with his family community contact and readjust his people’s lives,” the NDN Collective’s Indigenous advocacy group said in a statement.

"We made a promise to release Leonard Peltier and bring him back to our homeland - and that's what we do to achieve this," said Nick Tilsen, the founder of the organization. A promise."

The Federal Bureau of Prisons refused to comment before Peltier was released for security and privacy reasons. Prisoners in domestic jail are still detained, usually subject to conditions that restrict their travel and activities; drug and alcohol testing is required; and electronic monitoring devices may be involved to enforce a curfew.

Jenipher Jones, chief attorney for the Peltier case, said the extent of the rules regarding Peltier is still being formulated, but his age and health should be taken into account.

She added that when he struggles with illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and partial blindness in strokes, he will receive medical care after release.

"He has suffered nearly 50 years of medical negligence," Jones said. His release "gives him the ability to interact more acutely with culture in human life and through his religious and sacred customs." ”

Over the past few decades, Perthir’s case has received important support from international human rights organizations and civil rights idols, including Coretta Scott King. Religious leaders such as Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama; as well as members of Congress and celebrities.

But Biden's decision was brought on the last day of his tenure and was also condemned by law enforcement groups, who say Perthier was not very much at the death of FBI agents Jack Kohler and Ron Williams Frustrated.

"Mr. President, I urge you to urge you in the most powerful way: do not pardon Leonard Peltier or short sentence." Christopher Wray, then director of the FBI, in 1 A letter was written to Biden earlier in the month, when the president weighed whether to grant Ethics County.

Wray also objected to Peltier's request to be released on parole at a hearing last year. Bid was rejected.

Kohler and Williams were killed in June 1975 on the Pineridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, where they attempted to arrest a federal arrest warrant for stealing a pair of cowboy boots, according to FBI investigation archives.

Peltier is a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots radical organization that began in the 1960s to challenge police brutality and oppression of Indigenous rights. He occupied the town in Pine Ridge, armed target activists and members of the Oglala Sioux tribe after protests two years ago in South Dakota, and clashed with federal law enforcement officers. Two radicals were killed.

The day Cole and Williams arrived at Pineridge, the FBI said they were on the hiatus of fire during a 10-minute gunfight. Both men were shooting at close range.

According to investigators, Perthier was identified as the only person with a reservation to the AR-15 rifle, which can fire bullet types that kill agents.

But dozens of people participated in the gunfight. During the trial, two co-defendants were acquitted after they claimed to be self-defense. When Peltier was separately tried in 1977, no witness was able to identify him as a shooter, and his defense attorney at the time was unaware that the federal government withheld a ballistic book that showed that the deadly bullet did not come from His weapons, his weapons, were appealed by Peltier, according to court documents.

The FBI argued that subsequent tests of shell evidence did match the extractor marking of the casing retrieved from the Coler car box that matched the AR-15 associated with Peltier.

Jimmy Carter was president when Peltier was convicted in 1977 for the murder of agents. Two years later, Peltier was involved in the prison escape and was sentenced to five years in prison.

James Reynolds, the U.S. Attorney’s office, was responsible for prosecution and appeals in the Peltier case, later became an advocate for his release and wrote to various, including Biden to grant leniency.

He said he considered suspicious evidence in this chaotic environment when the crime occurred, evidence of his acquittal in his own trial, and the federal government’s historic sexual abuse of Native Americans.

"The case was just a huge miscarriage of justice," Carter-appointed Reynolds said in a telephone interview. "I realized it was something they did not do to Leonard. Enough."

Peltier told NBC News in 2022 that he wanted to clear his name in the new trial.

Chief attorney Jones said she believes "any detention of Leonard is illegal" and will appeal in his case.

Peltier's eldest son, Chauncey Peltier, was one of those waiting for official news on Tuesday.

Chauncey Peltier, who lives in Oregon, said he plans to reunite with his father next month on a 2015 prison visit.

He said he thanked those who worked behind the scenes for pushing the father’s release and eventually visited Biden to intervene.

“He corrected the injustice,” said Chauncey Peltier. “He didn’t know how important this is to the family.”