"I greatly appreciate everyone's support and well wishes during this time. I am also thankful for everything that has been done to aid in my defense. I ask that everyone takes the time to remember those who are separated from their loved ones at this time due to deployment and important missions. Specifically, I am thinking of those that I deployed with and have not seen for the last seven months, and of the staff here at the Quantico Confinement Facility who will be spending their Christmas without their family."
Bradley Manning.
Can you ask your family and friends to sign our letter urging for Bradley Manning to be treated humanely while he awaits trial? We'll make sure every signature is delivered to the base at which Bradley is detained.
http://action.firedoglake.com/BradleyManningMessage
Manning stays in his cell for 23 hours a day
Guards must check on him every 5 minutes, and he must respond each time
He is not allowed to sleep between 5am and 8pm
Substantive exercise is not allowed beyond walking, potentially in chains
Communication with other people in the brig is banned, and he cannot write to people outside beyond the few a list approved by the brig commander; any unapproved letters he receives are destroyed.
He has not been allowed to read newspapers or watch international news during TV time
Comfortable sleep is impossible; he must surrender his clothes each night, has only a heavy “suicide blanket” akin to an x-ray vest, and guards must be able to see his face at all times.
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