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Friday, Mar. 25, 2022

Is Chelsea Manning still in prison?

Kaiyah Clarke, Lead Stories

no

Manning was released from prison on March 12, 2020, after she had been detained for 11 months for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Wikileaks founder Assange. 

According to The Washington Post, a federal judge announced that the grand jury had been disbanded and therefore Manning's detention "no longer serves any coercive purpose."

A March 7, 2022, tweet from the verified Twitter account of Chelsea Manning has also confirmed that she is out of jail and will be publishing a book soon.

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