Chelsea Manning Sent Back to Jail for Contempt
She refused to testify before a grand jury believed to be investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was ordered to return to jail on Thursday, 16 May, for refusing to testify before a grand jury believed to be investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Andy Stepanian, a spokesman for Manning's legal team, said she had been remanded in custody by Judge Anthony Trenga after again refusing to provide testimony.
Manning, who spent seven years in military prison for leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks in 2010 and then two more months in an Alexandria, Virginia, jail this year on contempt of court charges, had said before the hearing that she would again refuse to testify.
"I'm not going to comply with this grand jury," she told journalists outside the Alexandria courthouse before the hearing.
(Published in an arrangement with PTI)
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