[Signal Boost] Manning's Conditions of Detention Violate Human Rights

[matrixrefugee]

Originally posted by tomboy_typist at [Signal Boost] Manning's Conditions of Detention Violate Human Rights

 

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) told MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer during an interview today that Bradley Manning’s treatment at MCB Quantico raises serious questions about the Pentagon and US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates.

“This is an American soldier who’s held in an American prison, and he’s been treated in a way that clearly violates his human rights,” Kucinich began this afternoon. “And this is being done, and apparently this is okay with the Pentagon.” (Read more...) Fake cut is fake.

Kucinich considers Manning’s current prison restrictions, which force him to strip naked before bedtime and remain so until just after a five a.m. wakeup call, a violation of Section 2-22.3 (FM 34-52) of the US Army Field Manual. This section prohibits forcing detainees to be naked in conjunction with intelligence interrogations. 

 

“We have to start asking ourselves, why isn’t our government leveling with us about people who are trying to get the word out about what’s happening? I don’t have any position on Mr. Manning’s guilt or innocence, but the way he’s being treated raises questions about the Pentagon and about Secretary Gates.”

 

What you can do: 

 

Join the Bradley Manning Support Network in our demand for humane treatment for Bradley Manning. 

Contact President Obama now — it only takes a few moments from your web browser. 

- Visit whitehouse.gov/contact

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Join the Amnesty International movement to end the punitive detention of Bradley Manning. 
Visit takeaction.amnestyusa.org to send a message now to the President and the Secretary that you will not allow these human rights violations to continue in your name.

 

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Comments

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, I read that article and--how are things like this being allowed?

PS
have you considered posting this to ontd_political? It might get more traffic there.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up: I'll be cross-posting it there shortly.

How this is possible? I guess it's what happens when someone with power abuses it and someone dares to stand up to them. :: Grinds molars::