“The prison has notified us that Chelsea was hospitalized and remains under a doctor’s care,” Nancy Hollander, a lawyer for Manning, said Friday. Her years in military prison have been punctuated by accusations of mistreatment. Lawyers for Chelsea Manning, the US soldier who covertly provided secret diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, are no longer in the dark about their client’s condition after several days of demanding information from military authorities on reports that Manning had been hospitalized. Manning, who is six years into a 35-year military prison sentence for revealing state secrets, alarmed her attorneys and outside contacts earlier this week when all contact stopped for at least 36 hours. Hollander is the lead attorney on Manning’s appeal of her 35-year sentence, which Hollander has called “grossly unfair”.

Source: The Guardian July 08, 2016 16:52 UTC