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Manning, Jailed for Contempt, Is Released

by Associated Press

   ALEXANDRIA, VA. --

   Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from
   a northern Virginia jail after a two-month stay for refusing to testify
   to a grand jury.
   Manning was released Thursday from the Alexandria jail after 62 days of
   confinement on civil contempt charges after she refused to answer
   questions before a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
   Her lawyers fear her freedom may be short-lived, though. She was
   released only because the grand jury's term expired. Before she left
   the jail, she received another subpoena demanding her testimony to a
   new grand jury on May 16.
   Her lawyers say she will again refuse to answer questions and could
   again face incarceration.
   Manning served seven years in a military prison for leaking a trove of
   documents to Wikileaks.