Friday, January 11, 2013

Military judge rules pre-trial punishment of Wikileaks defendant was illegal

[JURIST] A US military judge ruled Tuesday that the pre-trial punishment of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], who is accused of leaking confidential documents to WikiLeaks [website; JURIST news archive], was illegal and excessive. Army Colonel Denise Lind, who is overseeing the pre-trial hearing, determined that the extended solitary confinement and suicide restraints used on Manning during his detention at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va. were "more rigorous than necessary" and that any sentence...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/01/military-judge-rules-pre-trial-punishment-of-wikileaks-defendant-was-illegal.php

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