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March 8, 2019

Chelsea Manning Jailed for Contempt After Refusing to Testify on WikiLeaks
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A federal judge has sent U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning to
jail, after she declined to answer questions before a grand jury.
Manning was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia's Eastern
District to appear for questioning Wednesday 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. After Manning
refused to answer questions, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered
her to be immediately jailed until she agrees to testify-or until the
grand jury wraps up its work. Last year, prosecutors inadvertently
revealed they've indicted Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange under a
sealed indictment, but the charges against Assange remain unknown.


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