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Chelsea Manning’s lawyers renew call to release her from jail

  • Incarceration is form of ‘punitive sanction’, says lawyer
  • Manning in jail after refusing to testify before grand jury

Lawyers acting for Chelsea Manning, the former US army intelligence analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, have renewed efforts to secure her release after almost a year of incarceration.

The former soldier’s attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, has lodged a motion with a federal court in the eastern district of Virginia calling for her to be set free more than 11 months after she was detained.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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