A support committee for government whistleblower Chelsea Manning is trying toget the transgender activist removed from solitary confinement in Virginia,saying the punishment hurts her health
A support committee for government whistleblower Chelsea Manning is trying to get the transgender activist removed from solitary confinement in Virginia, saying the punishment hurts her health.
“We have worked to monitor Chelsea’s well-being since her arrival at Truesdale. In her first week she contracted a bacterial infection, which has since been resolved by antibiotics,” the statement said. “More recently, she experienced the shift between the prolonged under stimulation of 22-hour lockdown and a 45-minute social visit as so jarring that she threw up.”
Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, has been jailed for more than two weeks after being found in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury earlier this month about classified U.S. documents she sent in 2010 to WikiLeaks, an online anti-secrecy group. The hearing was part of a larger federal investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently avoiding extradition by hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
But the group stressed that the conditions in solitary confinement “amount to torture, possibly in an attempt to coerce her into compliance with the grand jury.”
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