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 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 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, 11th, 2011. Nearly 300 of the top law scholars in the United States have just called on the Obama administration to end the torturous treatment of Bradley Manning.
The strongly worded open letter, published in the New York Times Review of Books on Monday, called the condition’s of Manning’s detention a violation Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee against punishment without trial.
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 8, 2011. Sign the Avaaz petition. The online action site whose subscribers number over 7 million, has joined us in calling for President Obama to end Bradley’s inhumane treatment at Quantico. Their online petition has already collected a half million signatures in less than a week.
Read More »April 7, 2011. Disregarding its on rules, the Quantico brig has formally blocked an official visit for Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Mr. Juan Mendez (the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture), and a representative from Amnesty International, to investigate Bradley Manning’s situation.
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 »
