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May 17, 2019

Defiant Chelsea Manning Sent Back to Jail For Refusing to Testify About WikiLeaks
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And a federal judge in Virginia has sent U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea
Manning back to prison after she refused a second subpoena ordering her
to testify to a grand jury. The order came just one week after Manning
was freed after spending 62 days behind bars for refusing to testify
about her leak of hundreds of thousands of secret State Department and
Pentagon documents to Wiki Leaks - including evidence of U.S. war
crimes. This is Chelsea Manning, speaking just before she was taken into
federal custody.

Chelsea Manning: "Jails and prisons exist as a dark institution. And
despite that, it doesn't frighten me or disturb me. I've already been to
jail, I've already been to prison, so attempting to coerce me with a
grand jury subpoena is just not going to work."

Manning faces up to 18 additional months in prison, and could be fined
up to $1,000 a day while she refuses to testify.


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