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Article published the Wednesday 20 April 2011 -
Latest update : Friday 16 December 2011
WikiLeaks suspect to get prison upgrade
Bradley Manning has been in prison since July 2010.
AFP/Reuters/RFI
The US army officer who allegedly passed classified documents
to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks is being transferred to a new
prison, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. Rights groups have criticised the treatment he received in his current jail in Quantico, Virginia.
Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning, who is still awaiting trial for his role in the WikiLeaks affair, will be sent to the Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas. There he will be allowed contact with other detainees and visitors.
He has been held at Quantico since July 2010. Campaign group Amnesty International criticised the “harsh and punitive” conditions he was kept in, including solitary confinement and being forced to sleep naked.
Quantico is designed for short-term incarceration. “It is rare if not unprecedented that
somebody is there for as long as nine or 10 months,” admitted Jeh Johnson, the general counsel of the Department of Defense.
Johnson nonetheless insists that Manning’s treatment at Quantico complied with all “legal and regulatory standards”.
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Quantico is designed for short-term incarceration. “It is rare if not unprecedented that
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Johnson nonetheless insists that Manning’s treatment at Quantico complied with all “legal and regulatory standards”.
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