The young American soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday by a military tribunal (see the text of the verdict), after two months of trial by court martial. The military judge Denise Lind also decided his dismissal from the army for “dishonor”, including for acts of espionage, fraud and theft of classified military and diplomatic documents, sent to WikiLeaks. The prosecutor had requested at least 60 years in prison. His lawyer, David Coombs, intends to make an appeal for clemency from President Barack Obama to implore his mercy. The sentence is the longest imposed for leak of confidential documents. Twitter, Wikileaks believes that Manning could be released in less than nine years, perhaps even sooner. The NGO Amnesty International, meanwhile, called on President Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, to show clemency and instead focus on the investigation to shed light on U.S. crimes revealed in the documents. The frail soldier is supported in his fight by WikiLeaks website which has provided hundreds of thousands of secret documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In these cases, the media around the world have discovered the particular U.S. war crimes, including the massacre of villagers in Afghanistan and execution of bystanders and journalists, including two Reuters employees, a gunship too eager to battle it out (see video WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” , below). Bradley Manning in custody awaiting trial, under very hard, since his arrest in June 2010. Ironically, there has been some abuse he had helped expose about prisoners of Guantánamo. “I believe that Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment made by excessive and prolonged isolation that he suffered”, said early 2012 Juan Ernesto Mendez, the UN special rapporteur on torture. A committee for the release of the soldier was quickly formed and had received a lot of support from around the world. During a trial stage Tuesday, July 30, Bradley Manning had earlier been convicted of 20 of the 22 loads which he was charged, including violations of the Espionage Act of 1917, flight information to the armed forces and the illegal transfer of diplomatic cables or secret memos on the Guantánamo detainees. He was also found guilty of disobedience to military regulations, computer fraud, unauthorized by inserting into the computer system of the army, diverting the security mechanisms of the system and illegally storing classified information software. The man had pleaded guilty to ten of these charges. He decided to leave it to the judge to decide his sentence, rather than entrust this task to a military jury. Bradley Manning’s conviction is a message for computer Edward Snowden. The other informant who unveiled the Prism world, the system of generalized monitoring of Internet users set up by U.S. intelligence agencies, has been blocked since June 23 in Russia. There is a requested temporary asylum pending to join one of the Latin American countries that are ready to welcome him. Washington requested his extradition to Russia, which plays a shady game: without access to U.S. demand, Moscow does not really protect Snowden. If it comes to the U.S. authorities, he risks imprisonment, but, according to the promises of the Obama administration, not the death penalty. The abandonment of the heaviest weighing against Manning charge of collusion with the enemy, sounds like a confirmation of what semblance of mercy. The image of U.S. President Barack Obama was a little tarnished by the desire to punish whistleblowers who revealed the illegal actions of the U.S. government. The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 was awarded to the newly elected president, and the Norwegian committee that awards must bitterly regret having trusted the future behavior of a politician. Obama has not closed Guantánamo despite his campaign promise, he signed the documents allowing the development of Prism turned against the citizens of the world and he ordered to hunt down mercilessly informant Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Even if he wanted to argue with that, it would have been prevented by an administration and a largely favorable to a witch hunt in the name of public safety. Maybe the feeling of fear, handled with expertise by teams of George W. Bush and, more surprisingly, by those of Barack Obama, has managed to permanently transform America. ALSO READ. Our chronology of weapons of WikiLeaks. LOOK. Video of a war crime, revealed by Bradley Manning: LOOK Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison:
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