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UN looking into WikiLeaks suspect's torture claim
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 12 - 2010

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland: The United Nations' top anti-torture envoy is looking into a complaint that the Army private suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks has been mistreated in custody, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
The office of Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture in Geneva, received a complaint from one of Pfc. Bradley Manning's supporters alleging conditions in a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, amount to torture, said spokesperson Xabier Celaya. Visitors say he spends at least 23 hours a day alone in a cell.
The UN could ask the United States to stop any violations it finds.The Pentagon has denied mistreating Manning. A Marine Corps spokesman says the military is keeping Manning safe, secure and ready for trial.
Manning was charged in July with leaking classified material, including video posted by WikiLeaks of a 2007 US Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a Reuters news photographer and his driver. He is suspected of leaking troves of other material to the government secret-spilling site, which is in the process of posting more than 250,000 secret US State Department cables.
Manning has not commented publicly on whether he is the source of the leaks. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the organization's “technology is set up so we don't know” the sources of the material it gets. Nowak is the special investigator on torture, working for the UN Human Rights Council. Rapporteurs regularly assess complaints from alleged victims of human rights violations.
If a complaint is verified as legitimate, the investigator sends an urgent letter or appeal to the government that it believes has committed the violation.
In an interview with MSNBC Wednesday, Assange called Manning a political prisoner and said he believes the US is trying to get the soldier to testify against him. He called on human-rights organizations to investigate. “If we are to believe the allegations, then this man acted for political reasons. He is a political prisoner in the United States. He has not gone to trial. He has been a political prisoner without trial in the United States for some six or seven months,” Assange said.


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