Report: Boston-Park Street
Station Weekly Vigil-May 30th-Five Years In Jail Is Enough, More Than Enough-
President Obama Pardon Chelsea Manning Now!
Chelsea Manning’s Five Years Of Confinement
A spirited rally on behalf of
freedom for the heroic Wikileaks whistle-blower Chelsea Manning was held in Boston
at the historic protest spot, Park Street Station on the Common, on May 30th
to note the fifth anniversary of her incarceration by the United States
government (three plus years pre-trial and almost two on the conviction). Member
of Veterans for Peace and other organizations stood in solidarity with efforts to
win freedom for Private Manning via the Amnesty International/Chelsea Manning Support
Network on-line petition campaign to pressure President Obama to pardon her.
Taken into Army MP custody on May
27, 2010 and later held for months under torturous conditions at the Quantico
Marine Base in Virginia Chelsea Manning was tried and sentenced in a military
court-martial at Fort Meade in Maryland to 35 years in August 2013 for
releasing many military documents through Wikileaks
about U.S. crimes in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan among other revelations. If this sentence stands she will
be out in 2045 (earlier for good time, etc.) We cannot let this happen. We will
not leave our sister behind.
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