Chelsea Manning attempted suicide for the second time in recent months while in prison in Kansas for leaking classified information, two of her attorneys said on Friday. Attorneys Vincent Ward and Chase Strangio declined to divulge details of Manning’s suicide attempt last month at a military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Don't punish Chelsea Manning – release her | Trevor Timm Read moreBut Manning’s attorneys cited her prison conditions – including the solitary confinement that her legal team says she received as punishment for her July suicide attempt – as contributing to their client’s fragile mental state. But I may still be punished for my suicide attempt | Chelsea E Manning Read moreManning, arrested in 2010 as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 in military court of leaking more than 700,000 secret military and state department documents to WikiLeaks. In 2014, the ACLU sued the US Department of Defense over its refusal to treat Manning’s gender dysphoria.

Source: The Guardian November 04, 2016 23:03 UTC