US Army declares Wikileaks suspect Manning mentally fit to stand trial
April 30th, 2011 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Apr 30 (ANI): The US Army has declared that Bradley Manning, the prime suspect in the leaking of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website, is mentally competent to stand trial on a number of charges over his alleged role in the controversy.
Twenty-two-year-old Manning had been kept in solitary confinement in the Marine brig at Quantico since last July.
Army psychiatrists have taken nine months to judge that he is mentally fit to stand trial, CBS News reports.
Manning, who faces 22 new charges, has now been brought out of solitary confinement and is living with other inmates in a separate security facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is likely to be there for a long time before his trial starts.
Earlier it was claimed that Manning was made to strip every night at the Quantico brig to protect him from committing suicide, although psychiatrists denied such speculations to be valid.
If Manning is convicted of all the charges, he faces life in prison, reduction in rank to the lowest enlisted pay grade, a dishonourable discharge and loss of all pay and allowances. (ANI)
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