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Chelsea Manning Attempted Suicide a Second Time

  • Chelsea Manning is pictured in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013.

    Chelsea Manning is pictured in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013. | Photo: Reuters

Published 5 November 2016
Opinion

Manning was the whistleblower who leaked military and diplomatic documents while working as an intelligence analyst in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2010.

Chelsea Manning attempted suicide for the second time in recent months while she remains jailed in a military prison in Fort Leavenworth in Kansas for leaking classified information, two of her attorneys said Friday.

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However attorneys declined to divulge more details of Manning's suicide attempt, just as they did last month after an Army spokesman, said medical privacy laws barred him from discussing the matter.

Manning, a transgender woman, was the whistleblower who leaked military and diplomatic documents while working as an intelligence analyst in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2010.

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She was put in solitary confinement shortly after being sentenced to 35 years in August 2013. A year later the U.S. Army rejected a request for clemency.

Even WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered to turn himself over to the United States and serve a prison sentence if President Barack Obama pardons Manning.

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Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 2012 after securing political asylum from Quito to block potential extradition to the United States.

One of Maning's lawyers, Chase Strangio, described her treatment in a letter, quoted by the AP news agency, as "demoralising," adding that it was an "assault on her health and humanity."

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