Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from the Alexandria, Va., jail where she was held after refusing to testify in the grand jury investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, her lawyers said. She was released because that grand jury has expired. She has been subpoenaed to appear before a new grand jury on May 16 and may be returned to jail if she again refuses to testify, her support team said in a statement. Manning shared hundreds of thousands of classified government documents with WikiLeaks in 2010, while serving as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq. Manning’s attorneys previously noted that other grand jury resisters have been freed from jail on the grounds that their incarcerations had become punitive.

Source: Washington Post May 10, 2019 00:18 UTC