Chelsea Manning readies for disciplinary hearing over suicide attempt
Source: The Guardian
Ed Pilkington in New York
Wednesday 21 September 2016 23.15 BST
Chelsea Manning goes before a three-member disciplinary board of the US army on Thursday charged with interfering with the good order of the military prison in which she is held by attempting suicide, an offence that could lead to indefinite solitary confinement.
Manning, who is serving 35 years at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas for leaking a vast trove of secret documents on the US war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, required hospital treatment after she attempted to kill herself in July. The military authorities generated outrage by responding to the army privates act of despair by charging her with a number of serious disciplinary counts.
On Wednesday, the campaigning group Fight for the Future posted a copy of the military charge sheet that had been issued against the soldier. It showed that she has been slapped with two category-four counts among the most serious available both of which carry a possible sentence of indefinite solitary confinement.
One of those counts said that by attempting suicide Manning had caused the activation of the Force Cell Move Team the disciplinary crew of prison officers who are deployed forcefully to remove inmates from their cells. Yet in accompanying documents also posted by the group, the official report makes clear that Manning did not do anything to resist the force cell move team and she went with them quietly.
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)she is being disciplined for.. attempting to commit suicide?? Yeesh! Sign me up ..
PS.. " the activation of the Force Cell Move Team
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It is no joke.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)That is what is so beyond the pale.
If suicide is punishable, what is the punishment?
And if attempted but failed suicide is punishable... sorry I just can not get my head around the utter stupidity of it all.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)to the Supreme Court. It should be defined as cruel and inhuman punishment. Also, unless they pursue a criminal case in ever attempted suicide, then it may violate her rights.
The military is struggling with dealing with suicide. It is time to stop this.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)It is just totally illogical. I mean.. whoever would have thought up such a ridiculous law ?
That's why I tongue in cheek asked if it was something from the onion.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Of course, so was homosexuality.
It is time we dumped these laws.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)But if homosexuality wad a crime, at leadt the homosexual is still a homosexual.
If someone commits suicide, they're ficking dead! What is the punishment? Jesus, i can not believe i am even joining in this whole conversation..
Nothing against you.. 😅😅
calguy
(5,315 posts)you would know that they havetheir own laws and judicial system. In many ways it is quite different than the civilian system.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)How the fuck can suicide be illegal. I mean, you're dead.!!