Excerpt: "US whistleblower Chelsea Manning has reassured supporters that she
is 'glad to be alive' despite being hospitalized after a failed suicide
attempt last week."
Chelsea Manning. (photo: AP)
Chelsea Manning Reassures Supporters After Failed Suicide Attempt
By Middle East Eye
12 July 16
Manning is currently serving a 35-year jail sentence for leaking classified
military information to the website WikiLeaks
US whistleblower Chelsea Manning has reassured supporters that she is "glad
to be alive" despite being hospitalised after a failed suicide attempt last
week.
Manning, who is currently serving a 35-year jail sentence for leaking
military documents to the website WikiLeaks, tweeted out the reassurance
early on Tuesday morning, adding the hashtag #standwithchelsea:
On Monday, Manning's attorneys Chase Strangio, Vincent Ward and Nancy
Hollander released a statement in which they confirmed she had attempted
suicide.
"Last week, Chelsea made a decision to end her life," read the statement.
"Her attempt to take her own life was unsuccessful. She knows that people
have questions about how she is doing and she wants everyone to know that
she remains under close observation by the prison and expects to remain on
this status for the next several weeks."
Manning was taken to a local hospital near the US Disciplinary Barracks at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in the early hours of 5 July, a military
spokesperson confirmed.
The spokesperson added that army officials would "continue to monitor the
inmate's condition."
Private Manning - who went by the name Bradley prior to beginning a gender
transition process - was first arrested in May 2010 and ultimately charged
with 22 offences, including having "wantonly [caused] to be published on the
internet intelligence belonging to the US government, having knowledge that
intelligence published on the internet is accessible to the enemy," an
offence that could have potentially provoked the death penalty.
Among the hundreds of thousands of documents released by Manning to
WikiLeaks was the now infamous "Collateral Murder" video which appeared to
show gunsight footage from a US Apache helicopter as it fired upon a group
of Iraqi men, killing as many as 18 people including two correspondents from
Reuters.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently hold-up in the Ecuadorian
embassy in London after being threatened with extradition to Sweden for
questioning over alleged sexual assault offences.
He has been in the embassy for four years and is thought to be in poor
health.
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Chelsea Manning Reassures Supporters After Failed Suicide Attempt
By Middle East Eye
12 July 16
Manning is currently serving a 35-year jail sentence for leaking classified
military information to the website WikiLeaks
S whistleblower Chelsea Manning has reassured supporters that she is "glad
to be alive" despite being hospitalised after a failed suicide attempt last
week.
Manning, who is currently serving a 35-year jail sentence for leaking
military documents to the website WikiLeaks, tweeted out the reassurance
early on Tuesday morning, adding the hashtag #standwithchelsea:
On Monday, Manning's attorneys Chase Strangio, Vincent Ward and Nancy
Hollander released a statement in which they confirmed she had attempted
suicide.
"Last week, Chelsea made a decision to end her life," read the statement.
"Her attempt to take her own life was unsuccessful. She knows that people
have questions about how she is doing and she wants everyone to know that
she remains under close observation by the prison and expects to remain on
this status for the next several weeks."
Manning was taken to a local hospital near the US Disciplinary Barracks at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in the early hours of 5 July, a military
spokesperson confirmed.
The spokesperson added that army officials would "continue to monitor the
inmate's condition."
Private Manning - who went by the name Bradley prior to beginning a gender
transition process - was first arrested in May 2010 and ultimately charged
with 22 offences, including having "wantonly [caused] to be published on the
internet intelligence belonging to the US government, having knowledge that
intelligence published on the internet is accessible to the enemy," an
offence that could have potentially provoked the death penalty.
Among the hundreds of thousands of documents released by Manning to
WikiLeaks was the now infamous "Collateral Murder" video which appeared to
show gunsight footage from a US Apache helicopter as it fired upon a group
of Iraqi men, killing as many as 18 people including two correspondents from
Reuters.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently hold-up in the Ecuadorian
embassy in London after being threatened with extradition to Sweden for
questioning over alleged sexual assault offences.
He has been in the embassy for four years and is thought to be in poor
health.
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