Tag: Bradley Manning

• Wednesday, January 18th 2017 - 10:27 UTC

  Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, provider of secrets to Wikileaks

  

  President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the biggest such breach in U.S. history.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Assange criticizes Pte Manning’s conviction as a ‘dangerous precedent”

  

  Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy organisation Wikileaks, has said the conviction of US Army Private Bradley Manning on spying charges is a “dangerous precedent”.

• Monday, March 5th 2012 - 23:47 UTC

  Wikileaks suspect suffered “cruel and degrading” treatment, says UN rapporteur on torture

  

  US authorities’ treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning was “cruel and degrading,” the UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez said Monday.