Bradley Manning no longer held in solitary confinement, Pentagon says

[cal04]

Soldier now detained among medium-security inmates at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas as he awaits court martial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/29/bradley-manning-solitary-confinement-pentagon

Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking classified cables to WikiLeaks, is no longer being held in solitary confinement and is now being allowed to move among other military prisoners, according to the Pentagon.

Reporters were allowed to view the kind of accommodation in which Manning is currently being detained, at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, after he was moved earlier this month from Quantico marine base in Virginia as he awaits court martial.

His treatment in Virginia– which included 23 hours in his cell and being stripped down to a smock at night – was widely condemned by human rights groups including Amnesty International and the UN rapporteur on torture, who subsquently launched an investigation into conditions.

Manning is now detained among other medium-security inmates also awaiting military trial, according to Associated Press, which took part in a media tour of his new accommodation. The move implies that Manning has been cleared as a suicide risk, as any detainee deemed a risk of suicide would be held on their own.


WikiLeaks suspect to be housed with other inmates
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wikileaks_army_private_tour

[mmonk]

1. Means public pressure was great enough to move him and quit

working him over. Even the UN Rapporteur was denied access to him earlier to examine his condition.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. +1. That's *exactly* what it means. (IF it's true.)

It mean the hard work done by thousands of activists around the country and OUTSIDE of it... even in the face of a relentless disinformation campaign orchestrated by the state .... can have a decisive impact.

Let's keep pushing.

[nonperson]

2. "Cleared as a suicide risk?"

Or broken?

[mmonk]

4. This is from some notes I took from David House at a Firedoglake

webinar conference: Manning seemed ok when he first started visiting. Later, his behavior was changing- harder with social and physical skills-seemed sick and exhausted. Bradley later seemed like he had been asleep for 16 hrs. However if he fell asleep during the day, he was forced to stay awake.

It wasn't until a February visit he seemed better and had had vistors. In March, House was taken off the visitors list.