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Daniel Ellsberg: Manning should not face charges related to suicide attempt
Source: The Guardian
Daniel Ellsberg: Manning should not face charges related to suicide attempt
Pentagon Papers whistleblower joins calls demanding
Chelsea Manning not be punished for July suicide attempt
while imprisoned over WikiLeaks leak
Ciara McCarthy in New York
Wednesday 10 August 2016 19.39 BST
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has joined calls for Chelsea Manning to face no charges or punishment related to her suicide attempt in jail last month.
Army employees told Manning – who is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks – she was being investigated on multiple charges stemming from her 5 July suicide attempt, according to her lawyers. If convicted, the US army soldier could be placed in solitary confinement or be subjected to other punishment.
“These new charges ... seem designed to cause her to break down, basically to break her down as a human being,” said Ellsberg, a former US military analyst whose Pentagon Papers leak in 1971 revealed the full scope of the US government’s action during the Vietnam war.
Ellsberg and other supporters spoke to reporters after a group of organizations delivered a petition demanding that Manning not be punished. The petition, which organizers said had more than 115,000 signatures, was submitted Wednesday morning to the secretary of the army, according to multiple activist groups supporting Manning. The petition also demanded that Manning receive adequate treatment for “both her gender dysphoria and her suicide attempt”.
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Pentagon Papers whistleblower joins calls demanding
Chelsea Manning not be punished for July suicide attempt
while imprisoned over WikiLeaks leak
Ciara McCarthy in New York
Wednesday 10 August 2016 19.39 BST
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has joined calls for Chelsea Manning to face no charges or punishment related to her suicide attempt in jail last month.
Army employees told Manning – who is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks – she was being investigated on multiple charges stemming from her 5 July suicide attempt, according to her lawyers. If convicted, the US army soldier could be placed in solitary confinement or be subjected to other punishment.
“These new charges ... seem designed to cause her to break down, basically to break her down as a human being,” said Ellsberg, a former US military analyst whose Pentagon Papers leak in 1971 revealed the full scope of the US government’s action during the Vietnam war.
Ellsberg and other supporters spoke to reporters after a group of organizations delivered a petition demanding that Manning not be punished. The petition, which organizers said had more than 115,000 signatures, was submitted Wednesday morning to the secretary of the army, according to multiple activist groups supporting Manning. The petition also demanded that Manning receive adequate treatment for “both her gender dysphoria and her suicide attempt”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/10/daniel-ellsberg-chelsea-manning-charges-suicide-attempt
