Outrcry over Chelsea Manning's punishment for trying to take her own life

Experts have denounced a decision by the US military to sentence Chelsea Manning to solitary confinement after she tried to kill herself in an “act of desperation”. Manning, the transgender solider who was jailed for leaking classified information to Wikileaks, faces up to two weeks in solitary for attempting to take her own life, said a campaign group that supports her. A disciplinary board at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, said the punishment was also for possessing a supposedly prohibited book Hacker...
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