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The former US Army intelligence badyst UU Chelsea Manning was released after two months in jail for refusing to testify about the disclosure of military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks, his lawyers said.
"Today marks the expiry of the grand jury mandate and, after 62 days of detention, Chelsea has left the Alexandria detention center" (Virginia), his legal team said in a statement .
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Manning, who spent seven years in jail for leaks, may return to jail because he has been summoned again to testify and has already announced that he will refuse to do so.
"Unfortunately, even before her release, Chelsea received another quote, which means that she should appear before a different grand jury on Thursday, May 16, 2019, barely a week after her release today," explained his lawyers.
For him "it is conceivable that once again be tried for contempt of court and be remanded to custody of Alexandria Detention Center "probably the same day".
"Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questionsand use all available legal defenses to prove to the judge … that he has reasonable grounds to justify his refusal to testify. "
Manning objected to the examination at a grand jury hearing before the Virginia District Court last March and was charged with contempt of court.
Although it is not known exactly what prosecutors want to ask Manning, she and her lawyers said they would continue to refuse to testify about WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange.
Assange was arrested in London on April 11, after his departure shortly after the current Ecuadorian President, Lenin Moreno, ended the diplomatic asylum that had been granted to him for nearly seven years.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for her revelations at WikiLeaks, but her sentence was commuted in 2017 by then President Barack Obama.
While he was a military intelligence badyst, Manning disclosed more than 700,000 clbadified documents in 2010 on the WikiLeaks portal about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as state department cables, which has was a setback for American diplomacy.
Source: EFE
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