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Whistleblower Chelsea Manning ordered released from jail – Source CNET Tech

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Chelsea Manning has been ordered released from custody after being jailed for contempt of court.


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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Chelsea Manning, the former US Army soldier who went to prison for passing classified materials to Wikileaks. The release order came a day after Manning was hospitalized following a suicide attempt.

She was jailed in March 2019 for contempt of court when she refused to testify in front of a grand jury investigating Wikileaks. She said at the time that she already revealed everything she knew at her court martial and told the judge she’d…

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