Supporters of Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning have called for her release from prolonged solitary confinement at a jail in Alexandria, Virginia.
Manning, 31, a former Army intelligence analyst, was jailed on March 8 after she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
She said she did not like the secrecy of grand jury proceedings and that, when she was court martialed in 2010, she already revealed everything she knew.
US district judge Claude Hilton ordered her to be held at William G Truesdale adult detention center until she agrees to testify or until the grand jury is done working, reported The Guardian.
The Chelsea Resists group said in a Saturday news release that Manning 'has been kept in her cell for 22 hours a day. This treatment qualifies as Solitary Confinement.'
Supporters are calling for Chelsea Manning, 31 (left and right), to be released from William G Truesdale adult detention center on March 8 in Alexandria, Virginia, after she refused to testify before a grand jury about WikiLeaks
The statement also revealed that she is not allowed to be out of her cell when other prisoners are out of their cells nor can she talk to other people
'We have worked to monitor Chelsea's well-being since her arrival at Truesdale,' the statement read.
'In her first week she contracted a bacterial infection, which has since been resolved by antibiotics.
'More recently, she experienced the shift between the prolonged under stimulation of 22-hour lockdown and a 45-minute social visit as so jarring that she threw up.'
The statement also revealed that she is not allowed to be out of her cell when other prisoners are out of their cells nor can she talk to other people.
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