Manning's Dad Protests Son's Conditions: "Someone Who Has Not Gone To Trial Or Been Convicted"

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Wikileaks: Manning's dad protests conditions of son's incarceration, new legal filing complains conditions unjust

Xeni Jardin at 2:43 PM Thursday, Mar 10, 2011

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The attorney for Pvt. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst who is accused of downloading thousands of classified State Department documents and making them available them to WikiLeaks, today posts this update on the condition of Manning's incarceration in maximum security at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, VA:

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From a PBS Frontline blog post today, a tease of an exclusive interview with Manning's dad:

His attorney, David Coombs, told reporters the brig's action followed his client's complaint that the so-called "prevention of injury" restrictions on him were absurd. Manning said if he wanted to harm himself, he could do so with the elastic waistband of his underwear. In an exclusive Frontline interview this week with correspondent Martin Smith, Manning's father, Brian Manning, spoke for the first time about his son's incarceration.

For Boing Boing readers who can't play the video, Brian Manning says:

His clothing is being taken away from him, and he's being humiliated by having to stand at attention in front of people, male or female, who are fully clothed. This is someone who has not gone to trial or been convicted of anything. It's shocking enough that I would come out of our silence as a family and say, now then, you have crossed the line. This is wrong.

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1. I was wondering if he had any

family. This is the first time I heard mention of a father.