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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 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.
Read More »April 6, 2011, by Domonic Ponsford, Press Gazette. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said his paper’s coverage of leaked US embassy cables helped stir revolution in the Middle East and North Africa as he picked up the newspaper of the year prize at the Press Awards last night. He went on to urge Obama to reconsider his Adminstration’s treatment of Bradley Manning
Read More »April 7, 2011, by the Bradley Manning Support Network. Socially conscious artists and organizers in dozens of locations around the globe are holding rallies and creating pop art in an attempt to elevate the alleged Wikileaks whistleblower to icon status on April 9-10.
Read More »April 5, 2011, by Karla Adam, The Washington Post. British diplomats said Tuesday that they will restate to the State Department their concerns about the U.S. military’s treatment of Pfc. Bradley E. Manning.
Read More »April 5, 2011, by the Bradley Manning Support Network. We applaud the United Kingdom’s motion to intervene on behalf of Bradley Manning. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of the “Collateral Murder” video on the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.
Read More »March 29, 2011, by Stephen Weissman, The Nation. The US government has reacted strongly to Bradley Manning’s alleged disclosure of recent diplomatic cables via WikiLeaks. But what we haven’t heard is that the Department has been withholding from the public historical documents that bear strongly on two ongoing foreign policy crises.
Read More »March 10, 2011. Brian Manning, Bradley Manning’s father, spoke out about his son’s treatment at Quantico, Virginia, for the first time to the PBS Frontline television program. A portion of that interview was aired today.
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