{"id":47169,"date":"2013-06-03T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=47169"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:57:18","slug":"manning-wikileaks-trial-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=47169","title":{"rendered":"Manning Wikileaks trial begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of Bradley Manning, the US Army private who leaked thousands of documents to Wikileaks, is set to begin today at the Fort Meade military base, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/210px-Bradley_Manning_US_Army.jpg\" alt=\"210px-Bradley_Manning_US_Army\" width=\"210\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/210px-Bradley_Manning_US_Army.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/210px-Bradley_Manning_US_Army-159x200.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2013\/05\/30\/Manning%20Draft%20Instructions.pdf\">Manning faces 22 counts<\/a>, including aiding al-Qaida, in violation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/904\">Article 104 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Manning maintains that he gave the documents to Wikileaks in an attempt to spark a debate about the Iraq war. He has pleaded guilty to 10 of the charges against him, but not the most serious.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty of the more serious charges, Manning faces 154 years in jail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-22749745\">according to the BBC<\/a>. The trial is expected to last three months. <\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2013\/05\/30\/Manning%20Draft%20Instructions.pdf\">Manning Trial Instructions<\/a><br \/>\n&#8226; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/03\/bradley-manning-wikileaks-trial-aiding-enemy\">The Guardian: Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial &#8216;dangerous&#8217; for civil liberties \u2013 experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of Bradley Manning, the US Army private who leaked thousands of documents to Wikileaks, is set to begin today at the Fort Meade military base, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[744],"tags":[3193,273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90341,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47169\/revisions\/90341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}