Chelsea Manning Lawyers for Chelsea Manning, the transgender American woman who leaked more that 700,000 classified US military secret documents to Wikileaks, have confirmed she has attempted suicide. Her lawyers have been annoyed that her visit to hospital last week from the prison where she is serving a 35 year sentence became public and that they were denied contact with her. Scattered but unconfirmed reports in various media had linked her spell in prison to a possible attempted suicide but only today has this been confirmed. "Last week, Chelsea made a decision to end her life... She would have preferred to keep her private medical information private, and instead focus on her recovery," a just-released statement from her legal team says. "She knows that people have questions about how she is doing and she wants everyone to know that she remains under close observation by the prison and expects to remain on this status for the next several weeks." A tweet sent from Manning's account on Monday USA time, said: "I am okay. I'm glad to be alive... Thank you for all your love. I will get through this."
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First published: Tuesday, 12th July 2016 - 7:34pm