Saturday, March 5, 2011

Assange Manning calls the soldier "hero unparalleled"

The soldier suspected of having passed to Wikileaks thousands of secret documents U.S. is a "hero to none," he said, Thursday, March 3, co-founder of the website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, on British TV ITV News. Supporters of Bradley Manning, 23, denounced the fact that he is in solitary confinement at the military prison in Quantico, Virginia.

"The fact is that for ten months in solitary confinement in prison is an unfair treatment," said Julian Assange. The spokesman for the Pentagon Thursday refuted the criticism of prison conditions too severe. "There are thirty people in a U-shaped corridor, it is not in a hole, it is not isolated from others, he the right to talk with others in this corridor, "explained Geoff Morrell, spokesman for the Department of Defense, on MSNBC, reminding himself to have visited the military prison at Quantico to assess conditions detention of the young man.

David Coombs, Manning's lawyer, acknowledged that his client was "not technically placed in isolation" but argues that the soldier was detained in conditions "excessively harsh". On his blog, Mr. Coombs said that Bradley Manning "was stripped naked for no reason Wednesday. He stayed in his cell, naked, for seven hours, "he writes." This degrading treatment is inexcusable and without justification, "said Mr Coombs, who had complained in January that his client be released from isolation, Based on the opinion of psychiatric experts.

The Pentagon said Wednesday, 22 new charges to the 12 that already weighed against Bradley Manning, the only person in the world to be prosecuted for the leak of Wikileaks. These leaders charge is that of "collusion with the enemy", a crime punishable by death by court martial, but military prosecutors have warned they do not ask.

The soldier faces jail for life. Aged 23 years, this former intelligence analyst in Iraq has imprisoned since July 2010. He is suspected of having provided Wikileaks, which then released, U.S. military documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thousands of cables State Department diplomatic.

"Whether the charges are proven or not, it is the American political prisoner's largest, said Assange. If the allegations are true he is a hero like no other. "" Look at what is happening in the Middle East as a result of certain documents that we published, "he adds. David House, a friend of Manning, who will regularly see him in prison, said the U.S.

attempting to force the former intelligence analyst in Iraq to denounce Assange. "It is very clear that the U.S. government tries to crack the by now in solitary confinement, breaking and emotionally," said House of ITV at the microphone. They try to get him to make confessions or false confessions in order to link it to Julian Assange.

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