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December 31, 2019

Top U.N. Official: Jailing and Fining Chelsea Manning Over Testimony Is Torture : NPR
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"President Obama, in the waning days of his presidency, commuted Manning's original 35-year sentence for leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks to the 7 years she had already served. But in May, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga sent her back behind bars to a federal detention facility in Alexandria, Va., for refusing – a second time – to offer testimony to a grand jury impaneled to investigate Assange."