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Chelsea Manning faces solitary confinement for having Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair issue
Chelsea Manning is facing indefinite solitary confinement for being found in possession with a copy of Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair issue, according to her lawyer.
The US soldier, who is currently serving a 35-year military prison sentence for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, has allegedly been charged with four violations of custody rules.
Her lawyers have condemned them as ‘absurd’.
This includes ‘medicine misuse’, which involved having an expired tube of toothpaste’, ‘disorderly conduct’, which meant she swept food onto the floor during dinner, keeping ‘prohibited property’, that’s the Vanity Fair, and ‘disrespect’.
It was also found Manning owned copies of I Am Malala and a novel featuring trans women called A Safe Girl To Love. It is not clear why these have been confiscated.
Manning’s lawyer Nancy Hollander called the charge relating to an expired tube of toothpaste ‘utterly ridiculous’. It had expired in April of this year.
Speaking to The Guardian, she added: ‘I’m concerned that books have been taken from her – those books came to her legally and are clearly not a security threat.’
Chase Strangio, a staff attorney who is handling Manning’s legal dispute with the US military, claimed they were trying to ‘silence’ Manning.
‘Chelsea has a growing voice in the public discussion,’ he said. ‘It would not surprise me were these charges connected to who she is.’
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