Isolated from any contact with other people since August, in a cell of six square meters apart inside a maximum security prison, without windows or exterior light, Bradley Manning, the soldier at the Pentagon accused of leaking secret documents of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the State Department website Wikileaks leaks, is in a severely impaired mental state, as the only person who has had contact with him, his friend David House, who visited him last week.
Manning spends 23 hours a day in the cell without being able to exercise, controlled by his jailers. You can only exercise an hour a day in a different room but still empty. On Wednesday, the Army filed 20 additional charges against Manning, including collaboration with the enemy. This offense is punishable by a maximum sentence of death, although the Department of Defense has announced that the request be limited to imprisonment.
The directors of the prison where he is in custody since 29 July, at the military base in Quantico, Virginia, have decided to submit himself Wednesday from routine procedures to prevent suicide in high-security prisoners: every night in his cell, forced him to undress and leave you naked in it for seven hours until five o'clock.
According to House, a personal friend of the soldier, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the few people who can visit him in prison, Manning does not have suicidal tendencies to justify these procedures. "It is true that his mental state is weak, has worsened since November ...
Sometimes you come tremors, but not suicidal. Is the result of a punishment. The U.S. government wants to break" he said in a conference call Thursday. Manning can be visited for three hours on weekends. "This kind of demeaning behavior is inexcusable and has no justification," he said then in an entry on his blog, Manning's attorney, Step Coombs.
"It's an embarrassment to our military justice and should not be tolerated." Manning lives his Abu Ghraib particular, according to the Ohio Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich. "What is this? Quantico or Abu Ghraib," he said in a statement, referring to the Iraqi prison where U.S.
Army soldiers torturing prisoners in 2004. "These actions by the Army calls" non-punitive 'is a violation of the "Army Field Manual' [policy guidance of the armed forces] if used in interrogations in foreign countries. The justification and purpose of these methods raises questions on what is considered cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of international law.
" Congressman Kucinich has requested on numerous occasions to visit Quantico Manning in order to verify the conditions under which the Pentagon enforces custody. So far only negative found by the Army. Bradley Manning Support Group Network has raised over the Internet and 110,000 of the $ 120,000 they thought the lawyers would be required to pay the soldier's defense at trial to be held in the coming months. 
Manning spends 23 hours a day in the cell without being able to exercise, controlled by his jailers. You can only exercise an hour a day in a different room but still empty. On Wednesday, the Army filed 20 additional charges against Manning, including collaboration with the enemy. This offense is punishable by a maximum sentence of death, although the Department of Defense has announced that the request be limited to imprisonment.
The directors of the prison where he is in custody since 29 July, at the military base in Quantico, Virginia, have decided to submit himself Wednesday from routine procedures to prevent suicide in high-security prisoners: every night in his cell, forced him to undress and leave you naked in it for seven hours until five o'clock.
According to House, a personal friend of the soldier, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the few people who can visit him in prison, Manning does not have suicidal tendencies to justify these procedures. "It is true that his mental state is weak, has worsened since November ...
Sometimes you come tremors, but not suicidal. Is the result of a punishment. The U.S. government wants to break" he said in a conference call Thursday. Manning can be visited for three hours on weekends. "This kind of demeaning behavior is inexcusable and has no justification," he said then in an entry on his blog, Manning's attorney, Step Coombs.
"It's an embarrassment to our military justice and should not be tolerated." Manning lives his Abu Ghraib particular, according to the Ohio Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich. "What is this? Quantico or Abu Ghraib," he said in a statement, referring to the Iraqi prison where U.S.
Army soldiers torturing prisoners in 2004. "These actions by the Army calls" non-punitive 'is a violation of the "Army Field Manual' [policy guidance of the armed forces] if used in interrogations in foreign countries. The justification and purpose of these methods raises questions on what is considered cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of international law.
" Congressman Kucinich has requested on numerous occasions to visit Quantico Manning in order to verify the conditions under which the Pentagon enforces custody. So far only negative found by the Army. Bradley Manning Support Group Network has raised over the Internet and 110,000 of the $ 120,000 they thought the lawyers would be required to pay the soldier's defense at trial to be held in the coming months.
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