Bradley Manning lawyer complains of detention conditions

Albuquerque Express Saturday 22nd January, 2011

Bradley Manning, who provided Wikileaks with video footage of a 2007 Helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed two Reuters journalists and a number of innocent civilians, was placed on suicide watch for two days this week.

Manning has been held in detention without charge since June last year for allegedly downloading classified military documents while he was stationed in Iraq as a low-level (security-cleared) intelligence analyst. He is suspected of having provided Wikileaks with hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables which have caused widespread publicity in recent weeks.

Manning’s attorney, David Coombs on Saturday revealed he has filed an Article 138 complaint with the Quantico Marine Corps base command, where Manning is being held, alleging that the commanding officer of the brig abused his discretion by placing the suspected whistleblower on suicide watch for two days this week.

“The suicide risk assignment meant that PFC Manning was required to remain in his cell for 24 hours a day,” Manning's lawyer wrote on his blog posted on Saturday. “He was stripped of all clothing with the exception of his underwear. His prescription eyeglasses were taken away from him.

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Hang him, VERY RARELY are people like these found not guilty.

Fenril - 2 years ago

Well they should fry him! I mean he provided a video to wikileaks of american soldiers killing innocent reporters, shooting small kids (they were around 3 or 4 years old), refusing help those injured kids, laughing at innocent people's bodies that they ran over with a tank and showing that they have no respect for human life whatsover (laughing and praising each other for "good shooting"). Yep, stuff like this is extremely classified, I mean it's top secret! After all this could give tactical advantage to our enemies, right? It's like giving instructional video and materials to build a nuke to terrorists, right? So yeah let's fry him. He made our military look bad (read: showed what they really are).

real u.s. army - 2 years ago

Time for some people to stop giving into the shadow government agenda. Let there be light...

truth_will_out - 2 years ago

salaam, While rooting out terrorism governments skipped Desertstorm encounter of bombing Iraqi oil fields for NO apparent reason ! US Military did not travel such great distance to watch Saddam bomb his own oil fields,,, frame report,,, did not match accountance ! feeamnellaah

secret slave - 2 years ago

salaam, September 3,,,,2009 drone watched fuel tanker stuck in loose sandy soil for about one hour,, with many citizens unloading the stuck tanker, then bombed the area killing many citizens, then USA ascribed citizens as militants ! OUTLAWS do not do the work of inlaws ties strings to accountable, for none of the limited reasons given = homocide, skips past one homocide, how many homocides does skipper skip past? and calls it normal behaviors ! while pretending to root out evil work ! feeamnellaah

secret slave - 2 years ago

Wikileaks is revealing the truth now rather than 50 years from now when we can't do anything about it. WIKILEAKS is the result of governments misleading and suppressing vital information to its citizens. If governments were honest and good we wouldn't need Wikileaks. It is intolerable the way Mannning is being treated. REMEMBER Scooter Libby was found guilty of exposing a CIA agent's identity which was worse than the leaks and Bush pardoned him. CRAZY!

imaginemore - 2 years ago

This man should be held up as a hero. Balls of ****ing steal.

Paul` - 2 years ago

Maybe when the court tries him and actually convicts him, he swill have to suck it up and do his time. Being held for many months without an actual charge and under these conditions makes the United States no better than a small time dictatorship or cold war soviet satellite. He IS PRESUMED INNOCENT, no matter what the media says, until he is actually convicted. People like Fenril, or real u.s. army, are the same sort of emotional flakes that will sell out the constitution based on no more evidence than what Fox News might insinuate. This is still America, and if he is guilty, let him take his punishment after he is duly convicted. Till then, lets be the dignified democracy we once were before stooges like this commenters got on the program.

ex navy - 2 years ago

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