April 19, 2011, by David Coombs, attorney for Bradley Manning. “Although the news of the move came as a surprise to the defense, the timing did not… the defense was in the process of filing a writ of habeas corpus seeking a court ruling that the Quantico Brig violated PFC Manning’s constitutional right to due process.”
Read More »Rally to protest the indefinite detention of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning. Saturday, June 4 ~ Leavenworth, Kansas 11:30 am – Gather at Bob Dougherty Memorial Park, N 2nd St. and Kickapoo St. (map). Unrestricted street parking is available around the park. Toilets will be available as well. Noon – Rally Confirmed speakers * William…
Read More »42 St. and First Ave, across the street from the United Nations in the plaza. http://www.facebook.com/event.html?eid=123922347685840
Read More »April 19, 2011, by the Bradley Manning Support Network. Alleged WikiLeaks source to be moved away from attorney and DC-area backers; however, Kansas residents already preparing to spearhead support. “The military and Administration has been shocked by the support Bradley Manning has garnered globally–specifically at the gates of Quantico.”
Read More »April 19, 2011. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement in response to a report by the Associated Press that the Department of Defense will move Private First Class Bradley Manning from Marine Corp Base Quantico to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, a maximum security prison.
Read More »April 14, 2011. Bradley Manning Support Network. The eight months of solitary confinement of Bradley Manning at Quantico has drawn national and international criticism in the last week. Support is growing for him around the world with 500,000 writing President Obama in the last few days and with hundreds of top U.S. legal scholars criticizing his conditions of confinement.
Read More »April 13, 2011, by the office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Congressman Dennis Kucinich who has requested to meet with PFC Bradley Manning to witness the conditions of his confinement, today made the this statement after news that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture was also denied an unmonitored meeting with Manning.
Read More »April 11, 2011, by FireDogLake.org. Sign the petition: “We call on you to stop obstructing official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning at Quantico Marine Base. Marine confinement rules clearly state that people “conducting official government business… Rep. Dennis Kucinich is clearly conducting official government business in the interest of justice. He should be allowed to official visits with PFC. Manning, along with officials from the United Nations and Amnesty International.”
Read More »April 12th, 2011, Politico.com. During a state department briefing on Monday, Spokesman Mark Toner apparently struggled to maintain high ground, when pressed by two journalists — Matthew Lee from the Associated Press, and Arshad Mohammed from Reuters — over the recent reprimand from the UN for not allowing the UN torture investigator unmonitored visits with Bradley Manning.
Read More »April 11th, 2011. By Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian. A senior United Nations representative on torture, Juan Mendez, issued a rare reprimand to the US government on Monday for failing to allow him to meet in private Bradley Manning, the American soldier held in a military prison accused of being the WikiLeaks source. It is the kind of censure that the UN normally reserves for authoritarian regimes around the world.
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