In pretrial hearing, Army private Bradley Manning tells court of harsh prison conditions

Courtney Kube
NBC News
November 30, 2012

The U.S. soldier accused in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history broke his silence in court Thursday, speaking in great length and detail about his time in various U.S. military detention facilities.

In the third day of a hearing to determine whether he should face court-martial, Pfc. Bradley Manning began by describing the day he was detained in Iraq on May 27, 2010, and then described each cell and detention facility he’s been in since.

After a few days in a facility in Iraq, Manning was taken to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. He characterized his cell there as a “cage,” dark and with no air conditioning. Manning said that after several weeks in the segregation tent at Camp Arifjan he felt like a caged animal. “I was a mess, I totally started to fall apart,” he said.

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This article was posted: Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:53 am

Tags: domestic news, police state

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