- Chelsea Manning is still in prison Archived Message
- Kangaroo Court @ Woolwich continues - Mary February 28, 2020, 9:04 am
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Although Obama commuted her prison sentence she was rearrested and imprisoned. Chelsea Manning's lawyers renew call to release her from jail Incarceration is form of ‘punitive sanction’, says lawyer Manning in jail after refusing to testify before grand jury Wed 19 Feb 2020 Former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning speaks to the press ahead of a grand jury appearance about WikiLeaks, in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2019. Lawyers acting for Chelsea Manning, the former US army intelligence analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, have renewed efforts to secure her release after almost a year of incarceration. The former soldier’s attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, has lodged a motion with a federal court in the eastern district of Virginia calling for her to be set free more than 11 months after she was detained. Manning is being held at the Alexandria detention center after she refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. In December the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, denounced Manning’s ongoing incarceration as itself a form of torture. In addition to being jailed the former soldier is also being heavily penalized financially. For every day she refuses to testify, she is being fined $1,000. The total has already reached about $230,000. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/19/chelsea-manning-lawyers-call-release-jail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_City_Jail Yet they talk about barbarism in Russia and China. |
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