Tuesday, November 10, 2015

From The Chelsea Manning Archives


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

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