Bradley Manning should be in december for a military court to appear

Bradley Manning, the ex-military suspected of being secret information to Wikileaks to have passed, on december 16, for a military trial. The prosecutors would seek a life sentence.

David Coombs, attorney for Manning, made on Monday announced that the former soldier on december 16, is brought to a first hearing at the military court in Fort Meade, located in the state of Maryland. Manning is accused on 22 points, including computer intrusion, theft of state secrets and the ‘assisting the enemy’. For that last point, the ex-soldier to face the death penalty, but the prosecutor had in march know that he is a lifelong will requirements.

Manning is now more than eighteen months in seclusion retained. The former soldier is, according to the U.s. army, the source behind the leaked video footage of an American operation in Iraq; Wikileaks published these images under the title Collateral Murder. In addition, it would be Manning secret information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to Wikileaks have given, as well as 391.000 official reports by the klokkenluiderssite as Cablegate were released.

During the upcoming trial for the court martial will lawyer Coombs is expected to like to make clear that Manning is by former hacker Adrian Lamo reported to the authorities, mental health problems had at the time of the stealing of secret information. In addition, would the army have done nothing to the former inlichtingenanalist to help.

For the defense of Manning by family members of the Bradley Manning Support Network was established. Among other things Wikileaks has money in the fund, but the klokkenluiderssite refuses in all cases his sources.