{"id":15815,"date":"2012-09-27T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=15815"},"modified":"2012-09-27T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:18:23","slug":"assange-to-u-n-bradley-manning-has-been-tortured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/assange-to-u-n-bradley-manning-has-been-tortured\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange to U.N.: Bradley Manning has been tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Fitzpatrick, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/09\/27\/assange-bradley-manning\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/topics\/julian-assange\/\">Julian Assange<\/a>\u00a0claimed in a live video address broadcast during an event parallel to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/topics\/bradley-manning\/\">Bradley Manning<\/a>, the U.S. Army soldier accused of providing classified intelligence to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/topics\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a>, has been tortured while imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBradley Manning, science fair all-star, soldier and patriot was degraded, abused and psychologically tortured by his own government,\u201d said Assange, broadcasting from the Ecuardoian Embassy in London where he\u2019s been living for months. \u201cHe was charged with a death penalty offence. These things happened to him, as the U.S. government tried to break him, to force him to testify against WikiLeaks and me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assange was careful not to confirm that Manning was involved in any intelligence leak \u2013 the words \u201calleged\u201d or \u201callegedly\u201d appear five times throughout the approximately 1,700-word speech.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused the U.S. of excessively prosecuting whistleblowers, while calling on the American government to \u201ccease its persecution of WikiLeaks, to cease its persecution of our people and to cease its persecution of our alleged sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US administration is trying to erect a national regime of secrecy, a national regime of obfuscation,\u201d said Assange. \u201cA regime where any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment or for espionage and journalists from a media organization with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador granted political asylum to Assange earlier this year. However, British police surround the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, having warned Assange he\u2019ll be arrested and extradited to Sweden to be questioned on allegations of sexual assault if he leaves the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Assange fears extradition to Sweden would mean being sent to the U.S., which he claims has secret charges against him relating to WikiLeaks\u2019 release of classified American military and diplomatic cables. The U.S. has denied those claims, but a report from the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/political-news\/us-calls-assange-enemy-of-state-20120927-26m7s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em>\u00a0claims that the United States has classified Assange and WikiLeaks as \u201cenemies of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador\u2019s government\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gejK4jg-eIj3DLUJBmEcytczF4yA?docId=CNG.da926d7eb4a0aece9bfb118a4a53be2c.5a1\" target=\"_blank\">said Thursday<\/a>\u00a0it was prepared to shelter Assange for \u201cyears\u201d while it negotiates with Britain and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Manning, meanwhile, is being held in military prison on 22 charges, including that of \u201caiding the enemy.\u201d His trial is scheduled for February 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Fitzpatrick, Mashable | Julian Assange\u00a0claimed in a live video address broadcast during an event parallel to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that\u00a0Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army soldier accused of providing classified intelligence to\u00a0WikiLeaks, has been tortured while imprisoned. \u201cBradley Manning, science fair all-star, soldier and patriot was degraded, abused and psychologically tortured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[51],"class_list":{"0":"post-15815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"tag-torture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}