Chelsea Manning hospitalized after attempting suicide in prison

Former US military analyst Chelsea Manning , arrested since May 2019 for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange , was hospitalized after attempting suicide in a prison in Virginia, United States, on Wednesday, 11 lawyers.

“Chelsea Manning tried to take her own life. She was taken to a hospital and is currently recovering, ”said her law firm in a statement. "Her actions today show the strength of her convictions, as well as the profound damage she continues to suffer as a result of her 'civil' confinement."

Manning was arrested for contempt of court after she refused to testify before the grand jury responsible for investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, to whom she handed over a large amount of confidential documents in 2010.

In April 2019, Assange was detained at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he remained a refugee for seven years. He is the subject of an extradition request from the United States.

Manning was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison in a court martial for the disclosure of 750,000 diplomatic documents and military information, which caused a major embarrassment for Washington.

The sentence was commuted by Democratic President Barack Obama and she was released in May 2017, after spending seven years in prison, during which time she began her transition to the female sex.

At the time she leaked the documents to WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, a transsexual woman then known as Bradley Manning, was a military intelligence analyst.