{"id":96908,"date":"2020-03-12T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96908"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:56:35","slug":"chelsea-manning-fighting-for-life-after-attempting-jail-suicide-as-she-refuses-to-testify-in-wikileaks-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96908","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manning fighting for life after attempting jail suicide as she refuses to testify in WikiLeaks probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manning.jpg\" alt=\"manninf\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Manning is fighting for her life after the failed suicide bidCredit: AP:Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HMCS(FMF) ret sends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We all know the particulars of Manning&#8217;s history, and don&#8217;t need to revisit them. He&#8217;s still in jail and apparently was so despondent he attempted suicide. Again. From the article:<\/p>\n<p><strong>By: Fionnuala O&#8217;Leary<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHELSEA Manning attempted suicide in a Virgina jail cell on Wednesday after refusing to testify in a WikiLeaks probe, her lawyers say.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-army intelligence analyst &#8211; who leaked 700,000 classified US documents &#8211; reportedly tried to hang herself with a sheet at the Alexandra Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>She was reportedly found with a pulse at around 1pm and was still breathing as she was rushed to hospital after the March 11 suicide bid, which left her fighting for her life.<\/p>\n<p>Manning, 31, got seven years behind bars in a military prison for handing over hundreds of thousands of classified US documents to Julian Assange&#8217;s WikiLeaks in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>She is still scheduled to appear at a hearing on Friday, where a judge will rule whether she will be sanctioned for refusal to testify before a grand jury about leaking the secret documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In spite of those sanctions \u2014 which have so far included over a year of so-called &#8216;coercive&#8217; incarceration and nearly half a million dollars in threatened fines \u2014 she remains unwavering in her refusal,&#8221; her lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p>In their statement, Manning&#8217;s legal team said she would not &#8220;participate in a secret grand jury process that she sees as highly susceptible to abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ms. Manning has previously indicated that she will not betray her principles, even at risk of grave harm to herself,&#8221; it read.<\/p>\n<p>MailOnline reported that guards revived her after she was discovered in her cell &#8220;blue and unresponsive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t make light of suicides or attempts; Manning needs professional counseling. Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/525558\/chelsea-manning-us-army-intelligence-wikileaks-suicide\/\">The Sun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Senior Chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manning is fighting for her life after the failed suicide bidCredit: AP:Associated Press HMCS(FMF) ret sends. &hellip; <a title=\"Chelsea Manning fighting for life after attempting jail suicide as she refuses to testify in WikiLeaks probe\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96908\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chelsea Manning fighting for life after attempting jail suicide as she refuses to testify in WikiLeaks probe<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96911,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96908\/revisions\/96911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}