https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chelsea-manning-jailed-refusing-testify-grand-jury-virginia-n980016
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify before grand jury in Virginia
Manning will be in custody until she testifies or until the grand jury ends its work.
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Manning, who is transgender, gained attention after being convicted in 2013 for leaking classified government and military documents to WikiLeaks. She had worked as an intelligence analyst in Iraq and was arrested in 2010. At the time of her arrest, her name was Bradley.
She served seven years of a 35-year military sentence for leaking the trove of documents to the anti-secrecy website before then-President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in 2017 – one of his final acts as president. In May that year, she was released from a Kansas military prison.
McCormick said Manning can easily end this latest incarceration on the civil charge simply by following the law and testifying. "We hope she changes her mind now," McCormick said.
Manning's lawyer, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, said she believes jailing Manning is an act of cruelty given her medical issues, and said Manning's one-bedroom apartment would be a sufficient manner of confinement.
Outside the courthouse, about 10 protesters rallied in her support.
"Obviously prison is a terrible place," Meltzer-Cohen said. "I don't see the purpose to incarcerate people."
The Wikileaks investigation has been ongoing for a long time. Last year, prosecutors in Alexandria inadvertently disclosed that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is facing unspecified, sealed criminal charges in the district.
Wikileaks also has emerged as an important part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian meddling into the 2016 presidential election, as investigators focus on whether President Donald Trump's campaign knew Russian hackers were going to provide emails to Wikileaks stolen from Democratic organizations, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.