Today, whistleblower, Chelsea Manning turns 32, in jail. She is being fined $1000 a day and will owe $440,000 by October 2020, for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, who published documents she leaked. @xychelsea
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#ChelseaManning was jailed 30July 2013
Her 35 yr sentence was commuted by President Obama in May 2010
She was released then re-jailed on 8March 2019 for refusing to testify against #JulianAssange
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theguardian.com/world/2013/jul…
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We shall be waiting to see if the NZ gov's delayed revision of the #WhistleblowerAct is going to be strong enough to stop their gagging, smearing, bankrupting, jailing & torture"
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Like @DanielEllsberg who released the Pentagon Papers, thereby hastening the end of the Vietnam War as well as the Nixon admin, Assange is to be tried under the Espionage Act
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@WestminsterDJMC
See @DEAcampaign
#FreeAssangeNZ +
@Candles4Assange
are holding a candlelight vigil 7.30pm in
Midland Pk, Wellington NZ this Fri 20 DEC
during busy Xmas shopping sharing cake & info about #Manning + #Assange
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