DEMONSTRATORS gathered outside the US embassy in London on Monday for a
protest picket in support of Bradley Manning, the American veteran of the Iraq war accused of
leaking secrets to WikiLeaks.
The
demonstraors are supporting a campaign and nomination initiated by Icelandic MP
Birgitta Jonsdottir for Bradley manning to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Manning,
who allegedly passed on a huge tranche of classified information to WikiLeaks
when he served in the US army of
occupation in Iraq, was arrested in
May 2010 and charged with leaking secrets including the “collateral murder”
video film of a US helicopter
gunship mowing down civilians and two Reuters war correspondents.
The UN special
rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of
cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, who was held in
solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks source.
This week a US military judge
ordered prosecutors to share more documents with Manning after his lawyers
accused them of hiding information that could help their client's case.
For months,
Manning's defence team has demanded access to reports by US government
agencies, including the CIA, which assessed the effect of the
leak of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website. Manning’s lawyers
believe the reports will show the alleged disclosures had no major effect on
American national security.
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