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April 5, 2019

Chelsea Manning, Jailed for Resisting Grand Jury, Released from Solitary Confinement
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In Northern Virginia, U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been
released from solitary confinement after 28 days and moved into the
general population of the Truesdale Detention Center. Manning has been
imprisoned since March 8, after she refused to answer questions before a
grand jury about her 2010 release to Wiki Leaks of hundreds of thousands
of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan. The U.S. district judge in Virginia overseeing the case
said Manning would remain in jail until either she agrees to testify or
the grand jury concludes its work. This week, Manning drew the support
of freshman New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who
tweeted, "Solitary confinement is torture. Chelsea is being tortured for
whistleblowing, she should be released on bail, and we should ban
extended solitary in the US."


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