Britain risks losing his "moral authority" by not to talk about the treatment of the U.S. army private accused of offering thousands of the WikiLeaks Web site-sensitive documents, said a member of Parliament.
Welsh MP Ann Clwyd stimulated a debate in the British Parliament Monday evening on Bradley Manning, 23, a who is being held in a former intelligence analyst centre military detention in Quantico, Virginia. He was arrested in May 2010
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It is checked by guards every five minutes and must respond when they check on him. It is not allowed to sleep 5 hours of the morning (7 am on weekends) and 8 am, and if he tries, he must be standing or sitting, said his lawyer, David Coombs. It needs be visible at any time, including the night, which means he did has not access to of leaves, without pillow except that integrated in his mattress, and did is authorized that a cover and a book or a magazine in his cell.
It is has no contact with of other prisoners, even during the time each day, qu'il is authorized to out of his cell.
Coombs has complained that his client processing is degrading and punitive damages, a charge of US Army refused.
Coombs claimed the path that Manning is to be treated "serves no purpose except to humiliate and degrade..." It seems cruel and unnecessary. ?
Manning faces a multitude of charges on allegations, that it has provided data classified to the whistleblower site WikiLeaks.
This is the second time Clwyd, a Labour MP who is the head of a multi-party parliamentary Committee on human rights, has raised the question of the treatment of Manning the British Parliament.
Mother of Manning lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and his son lived there aged 13 to 17 years.
"I do not want get us drawn into a discussion on the rights and wrongs of the WikiLeaks revelations," Clwyd said in the debate in Parliament, the Guardian newspaper reported. "I want us now to focus on the current conditions of detention for Bradley Manning.".
"Manning case is significant because the message it sends to the rest of the world on the type of processing to the United States think is acceptable for persons in detention."
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have also raised concerns about treatment of Manning.
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