Chelsea Manning Moved Out of Solitary Confinement After …

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22:38 04.04.2019(updated 22:58 04.04.2019) Get short URL

Whistleblower and former US Army analyst Chelsea Manning has been moved out of de facto solitary confinement and joined the general population at the Virginia jail where she has been detained since March 6. She refused to testify before a grand jury for its investigation into document leaking website WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

The support crew that operates Manning's Twitter account while she remains injail tweeted Thursday that"After 28 days inso-called 'administrative segregation,'(solitary confinement)' Chelsea has finally been moved intogeneral population atTruesdale Detention Center," the Alexandria, Virginia, jail where she's been held sinceMarch 6.

The development comes onthe heels ofa Tuesday motion filed byManning tobe released, arguing Judge Claude M. Hilton hadn't followed proper procedure byrefusing toweigh inon her arguments againstdetention and that her continued jailing had become punitive.

Manning's Twitter acknowledged her continuing legal battle and asked supporters todonate toher legal fund.

The whistleblower spent nearly a year insolitary confinement from2010 to2011 while awaiting trial forstealing classified documents fromthe US Army and publishing them onWikiLeaks. Those documents, collectively termed "Collateral Murder," exposed US war crimes inIraq and Afghanistan. She was sentenced to35 years inprison, butUS President Barack Obama commuted her sentence toseven years ofconfinment ashe left office in2017; Manning was released that May.

UN Special Rapporteur onTorture Juan Mendez has described solitary confinement formore than15 days astantamount to "torture."

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