Chelsea Manning
A soldier of the US army Chelsea manning who is serving 35-year prison sentence passing classified files to WikiLeaks, attempted suicide a second time. About it reports Reuters with reference to her lawyer Strangio chase of the American civil liberties Union.
According to him, manning attempted to take her own life on 4 October, while he was incarcerated in solitary confinement for a suicide attempt undertaken in July.
“She was repeatedly punished for trying to survive and now repeatedly punished for trying to die,” said Strangio.
A press-the Secretary of the army was not ready to promptly comment on this information.
In September it was reported that manning was sentenced to two weeks in solitary confinement for a suicide attempt. According to Drey, in solitary confinement she was to spend seven days, another week period she gets if in the next six months more time to break discipline.
On 6 July it was reported that Chelsea manning — before the sex change known as Bradley manning — was hospitalized after a suicide attempt.
In August 2013, Bradley manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He gave WikiLeaks about 700 thousand classified documents relating to US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most famous leak was a 39-minute videotape of the killing of American military civilians in Iraq.
Subsequently, the court found manning a woman named Chelsea, and has allowed to begin sex change. Condemned constantly complain about inadequate, in her opinion, the medical care related to this process.