Chelsea Manning is released from prison and is the subject of a new subpoena in the WikiLeaks case: NPR

Chelsea Manning was released from prison more than a month after being detained for refusing to testify before a grand jury in a case involving WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

Manning was released Thursday afternoon, after the grand jury term expired, but the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia has already summoned her to appear before a new jury composed of grand jurors , according to the newspaper. a tweet from Manning's account.

Manning, a former military intelligence analyst, admitted to having disclosed to WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of military and State Department documents in 2010, based on reports of battlefield and embassy cables. US. These revelations triggered a court-martial against her and, more recently, resulted in criminal charges against Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks.

Manning must return to federal court on May 16th. Despite an offer of immunity, she declined to answer questions on WikiLeaks, saying that she had already shared what she knew.

The US affair against Assange took a fresh run just days after Manning's arrest in early April, when Assange was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested in London. Within hours, the United States unveiled an indictment against him.

This indictment reads as follows: "In March 2010, Assange had participated in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, to help Manning decipher a password stored on Department of Defense computers … used for classified documents and communications. "

Last month, US District Judge Claude Hilton ruled that Manning should remain in jail until she testifies or that a grand jury no longer wants to hear him.

In a statement issued the day before she was arrested by the US Marshals, Manning described the prosecutor's questions: "All the substantive issues were about my disclosure of information to the public in 2010 – answers that I'm asking. I have provided numerous testimonies during my court martial in 2013. "

Instead of answering these questions, Manning stated that she had told the court that she was opposed to it and that she would not respond on the grounds that they were violating "his first, fourth and sixth amendments, as well as other legal rights".

Manning was released from a military prison in 2017 after former President Barack Obama reduced his sentence from 35 years in prison to a term of about seven years shortly before his departure.