Whistleblower Chelsea Manning will be released from custody after a judge declared her testimony was no longer needed in a Grand Jury investigation. Manning, a former intelligence analyst, stole hundreds of thousands of classified documents from the US military and leaked them to Wikileaks. She was asked to testify before a Grand Jury looking into […]
Chelsea Manning’s legal team have revealed that she is currently in hospital recovering from a suicide attempt. The former US Intelligence Analyst is currently being held in a US prison on contempt of court charges after she refused to testify into an inquiry about Wikileaks. Manning has been held on remand since last May, she […]
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is staying in prison after the US federal appeals court denied her application to be released on bail. The court opted to uphold a lower court’s decision to hold her in civil contempt after she refused to testify before a grand jury. Manning has been detained since March when she refused to […]
Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been jailed in the USA after she refused to give testimony to a grand jury. Manning is a former Army intelligence analyst who served years in prison for leaking one of the largest collections of classified documents in U.S. history. She was released from prison in 2017 after President Barack […]
The federal government is considering banning Chelsea Manning from speaking in Australia, with new Immigration Minister David Coleman reviewing her visa. Manning is scheduled to speak at the Antidote Festival at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night, following by speaking engagements in Brisbane and Melbourne. Manning, who was an intelligence analyst in the US […]
In his final days as President of the United States of America, Barrack Obama has used his presidential powers to drastically reduce the sentence of Chelsea Manning. Manning was convicted by court-martial of espionage and a series of related charges and sentenced to 35 years imprisonment. Manning was responsible for the unauthorised release of almost […]
The GLORIA Awards (Gay & Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous & Ignorant comment Awards) will be held at the New South Wales Parliament on May 14th, as has been announced by Penny Sharpe MLC. “I’m thrilled to announce that once again David Marr will be joining me to host the 5th annual GLORIAs”. she said. Sharpe said […]
