Chelsea Manning Jailed for Refusing to Testify Before a Grand Jury
Chelsea Manning is in jail.
The 31-year-old activist and whistleblower was put in jail on Friday (March 8) after refusing to answer questions from a Virginia federal grand jury regarding the release of documents to WikiLeaks, NBC reports.
The judge told Chelsea she will remain in federal custody “until she purges or the end of the life of the grand jury” according to her representatives.
She previously told reporters she was prepared to go to prison because she doesn’t believe in the grand jury process.
“I responded to each question with the following statement: ‘I object to the question and refuse to answer on the grounds that the question is in violation of my First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment, and other statutory rights. All of the substantive questions pertained to my disclosures of information to the public in 2010 — answers I provided in extensive testimony, during my court-martial in 2013,” she said in a statement.
Chelsea was previously sentenced under the Espionage and Computer Fraud and Abuse Acts and was supposed to spend 35 years in jail for releasing 750,000 documents to WikiLeaks. Three days before leaving office, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in 2017.
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