Chelsea Manning
For Immediate Release: May 9, 2017 Contact: Ryan Karerat, rkarerat@aclu.org Christina DiPasquale, christina@balestramedia.com Chelsea Manning, Legal Team on Manning’s Upcoming Release from Military Prison Next week, Chelsea Manning will be released from U.S. military prison after serving a seven-year sentence...Read more
President Obama Grants Commutation to Chelsea Manning January 17, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced today the commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence for disclosing classified information that raised public awareness regarding the impact of war on innocent civilians. Manning will reportedly be freed...Read more
Only 12 days left until January 20th. Thanks for spreading the word. President Obama, in his recent essay for the Harvard Law Review, says “I believe strongly that solitary confinement is overused and can be counterproductive.” Amnesty International, the ACLU,...Read more
Chase Strangio on Democracy Now (December 21, 2016): Her Life Depends On Obama Taking Action Now From the interview – excerpted from the Truth-out.org transcript. AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about Manning, we’re joined by Chase Strangio, staff attorney at...Read more
Chase Strangio, Chelsea’s attorney for her ACLU case about her gender dysphoria treatment, writes about when he first met Chelsea and why it’s so important for President Obama to give her “time served,” and commute her sentence. Transcription from...Read more
ACLU And LGBTQ Groups Call on Obama to Grant Clemency to Chelsea Manning Letter from ACLU and 16 LGBT Groups to President Obama From the blog post: The American Civil Liberties Union and over a dozen LGBT groups sent a...Read more
President Obama, The Time Is Now to #FreeChelsea. She Deserves Her Freedom. By Ian Thompson, for the ACLU From the post: Since she was first taken into custody in 2010, Chelsea, a transgender woman who is being forced to serve...Read more