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European MP’s Suspect US WikiLeaker Sgt Bradley Manning is being tortured In Federal Custody
“People Are Free If They Participate In Power. I Know Of No Country In The World Today Where The People Are Really Free” Sen. Mike Gravel
Outrage over the treatment of Bradley Manning has peaked nearly two years after he was first put in federal custody. Now 50 members of European parliament are urging the US to allow the UN's special rapporteur on torture access to the soldier.
Less than a month before a pre-trial hearing for Bradley Manning is slated to begin, more than dozens of officials from overseas have sent a letter to Washington regarding the treatment imposed on the alleged whistleblower.
While being detained for nearly a year-and-a-half, Manning has been subjected to what watchdogs and attorneys and advocates alike have called cruel and unusual punishment. At times the military vet has been stripped naked of his clothes, held in solitary confinement for almost all hours of the day and monitored incessantly. He has been under the government’s custody since his arrest in May 2010 for his alleged involvement in leaking classified documents to the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, the brainchild of Julian Assange.
