By Tom Jackman Tom Jackman Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally Email Bio Follow May 16 at 5:04 PM Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, refused again Thursday to testify to a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and was again sent to jail for up to 18 months.
Manning told the judge, “The government cannot build a prison bad enough, cannot create a system worse than the idea that I would ever change my principles. I would rather starve to death than to change my opinions in this regard. I mean that quite literally.” Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, was arrested in 2010. She was convicted at a court-martial in 2013 of crimes related to her disclosures and sentenced to 35 years in prison. President Obama commuted her sentence after she served seven years, in 2017.Assange was arrested in London in April after seven years in asylum at Ecuador’s British embassy. He remains there pending extradition.
Manning was jailed for refusing to testify on March 8. In calling for her release, her lawyers argued that the civil contempt of court statute used to jail her was for coercive purposes, and would not serve its purpose because Manning would never testify. They argued that other prisoners had been released when it was clear that the jailing was not serving its coercive purpose.
Manning said in her affidavit that she was placed in administrative segregation, or solitary confinement, for her first four weeks in the Alexandria jail, where most federal prisoners in Virginia are held. She said the isolation caused her “extraordinary pain” and that she was sometimes in a “dissociative stupor.” During one non-contact visit, she because nauseated with vertigo and vomited on the floor, Manning wrote.
Bye 👋🏽
Please make him dress like a man until he testifys
Couldn’t she just go and plead the 5th? Just legally curious
FreeChelseaManning FreeAssange
Bradley/he/him
This is a sacrifice for the sake of freedom and truth.
Do not release until!
She is a true American heroine! Who would give up his own life in order to preserve the first amendment?! Chelsea’s Courage is admirable.
her skin would clear up if she stopped eating cheese and fried food, then no need for the consumerist make up waste products =\\
Good.
lock up this guy this traiter for life!!!!!!!!
How can this be . When Trumps minions and sycophants don't even turn for there own subpoenas.
Quick question RepJerryNadler RepAdamSchiff If this is what happens to normal citizens who refuse to testify WHY isn’t Barr in jail? Why the DOUBLE STANDARD? EnoughIsEnough
Lock the traitor up in Gitmo
She is being prosecuted for refusing to comply with a subpoena during a time when the head of the state is refusing to comply with a subpoena.
Poor Charlie
Does this violate her 5th?
Oh well, she/he should be in jail anyway!
Great! Now do William Barr.
Sorry Chelsea, you only get to do that if you are in Trump's inner circle.
Meanwhile, Trump, Barr and Mnuchin are in contempt of Congress....no consequences whatsoever.
Ze/He/She/It/They/Helictoper/Moogle/Chocobo needs to learn some respect.
Remember - Mr. Obama freed this traitor from jail
Lock the door and lose the key
meanwhile, rich people like Trump jr get to do whatever the F they want.
Good... Now lets start jailing all of realDonaldTrump sycophants who refuse to testify.
Does this mean we can put trump back in jail for refusing to testify?
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