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Former Army Intelligence Analyst, Chelsea Manning, is sent back to jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the WikiLeaks investigation.
Manning spent two months at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia, for a contempt charge on the same subject, but was released Friday at warrant expiry of the grand jury.
CHELSEA MANNING, RETIRED IN PRISON, AFTER REFUSING TO DEPOSIT TESTIMONY BEFORE THE BIG JURY
This time, a judge ordered Manning to go to the Alexandria Detention Center, where she could be sentenced to 18 months in jail, the length of the sentence imposed by the grand jury, unless She agrees to cooperate with the investigation sooner.
Manning said she preferred to remain in prison "forever" only to testify before the grand jury interviewing Wikileaks, describing the subpoena as "an attempt to put me back in jail".
"There is nothing new," said Manning at a press conference before the hearing in Alexandria. "They are not asking for anything new, there is no new information."
She told the judge that she "preferred to starve" than to comply with the subpoena.
"Facing the prison again, potentially today does not change my position," said Manning before entering his hearing. "Prosecutors deliberately put me in an impossible situation."
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Manning was convicted of espionage and theft in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in prison for disclosing classified material to Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2017 and she was released after seven years of imprisonment.
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