{"id":25536,"date":"2014-08-16T04:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=25536"},"modified":"2014-08-16T04:42:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:42:01","slug":"aclu-to-sue-military-if-chelsea-manning-isnt-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/chelsea-manning\/aclu-to-sue-military-if-chelsea-manning-isnt-given.php","title":{"rendered":"ACLU to Sue Military If Chelsea Manning Isn&#8217;t Given &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    ACLU lawyers for convicted Wikileaker Chelsea Manning have    announced they will sue the military if the Army fails to    provide Manning with appropriate medical treatment by September    4.  <\/p>\n<p>    Buzzfeed reports:  <\/p>\n<p>    Our constitution requires that the government provide    medically necessary care to the individuals it holds in its    custody, Chase Strangio, staff attorney with the ACLUs    Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project, said in a    statement. It is cruel and unusual punishment to withhold from    Ms. Manning the care that the militarys own doctors have    deemed medically necessary. The Army is withholding her care    for political reasons, which is simply not permitted by our    Constitution.  <\/p>\n<p>    In a letter dated Aug. 11, Mannings lawyers note [t]he Armys    continued indifference to Ms. Mannings serious medical need    for treatment, despite the recommendations of the Armys own    medical providers.  <\/p>\n<p>    Last month, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Manning would receive \"rudimentary    treatment\" for her gender transition.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/08\/aclu-to-sue-military-if-chelsea-manning-isnt-given-appropriate-medical-treatment.html\" title=\"ACLU to Sue Military If Chelsea Manning Isn't Given ...\">ACLU to Sue Military If Chelsea Manning Isn't Given ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ACLU lawyers for convicted Wikileaker Chelsea Manning have announced they will sue the military if the Army fails to provide Manning with appropriate medical treatment by September 4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chelsea-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}