Posted on 03/23/2019 2:59:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
Chelsea Manning is being subjected to “effective” solitary confinement for refusing to cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating WikiLeaks, her supporters said Saturday.
Manning’s support committee said the former Army analyst and WikiLeaks source has been isolated in a cell for 22 hours a day since being jailed more than two weeks ago for defying a subpoena seeking her testimony in front of a federal grand jury convened in Alexandria, Virginia.
Sixteen days into her latest stint behind bars, Manning’s supporters said the conditions constitute “Prolonged Solitary” as defined by Juan Mendez, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, and should be reversed immediately.
“Chelsea is a principled person, and she has made clear that while this kind of treatment will harm her, and will almost certainly leave lasting scars, it will never make her change her mind about cooperating with the grand jury,” said the support committee, which goes by the name “Chelsea Resists!”
“It bears repeating that while solitary confinement should not be used for anyone, it is especially immoral to place Chelsea in solitary, when she has not been accused of, charged with, nor convicted of any new crime,” Manning’s supporters said in a statement seeking reprieve.
Manning, 31, has been held at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria since March 8. Representatives for the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office, the agency responsible for the jail’s operations, did not immediately return an email inquiring about her conditions.
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Being solitary is it’s decision. Live with it.
Put “her” in the general population and drop the soap.
Every time I hear them call him a her makes me angry. He is guilty and should be in prison for a long, long time. I wish the media were not so eager to embrace these devastating lies.
Jeez, how many times they can fit the pronoun “her” into this article in an attempt to convince us that this guy is female?
[ her supporters said Saturday. ]
HIS supporters.
IT is a “HE” - IT will NEVER be a “she”.
It has XY chromosomes. They do not change to XX with surgery.
Yes, it’s sad to see the Times push this insanity.
That this thing has supporters is what puzzles me.
Should have been hanged, or shot in short order.
“His.”
He is not now nor never will be a her.
He’s just a mutilated man.
A sick, deranged mutilated man.
BRADLEY is a nothing but a traitorous piece of trash and deserves a bullet in the head and left to rot in the street
If PDJT told the DOJ to dial it back, the MSM would call it “obstruction of justice,” I am certain.
She’s a dude, Jim.
Yep, it’s sickening.
I agree, he’s a traitor.
What about the ordinary, decent prisoners? I'd consider exposure to Bradley to be torture, whether a man or a woman had to endure that traitor's presence.
LOL
It could be the Salt Monster.
If Manafort could do it, Manning can do it.
Self mutilation does not a woman make.
FeMale problems? ::: sinker :::
“...her supporters said Saturday.” Wait. The dude is a guy. The article is useless. No pity.
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