Imprisoned transgender soldier Chelsea Manning hospitalized

Prison officials tell TMZ although she has been released from the hospital she is being “monitored”. “No information regarding their individual treatment can be released without their consent”. The Afghan government said 147 Afghan civilians were killed in the attack exposed by Manning.

USA military whistleblower Chelsea Manning was taken to the hospital on Wednesday.

Manning in May appealed to an Army court to overturn her court-martial conviction.

Private Manning, who announced her transition to female in 2013, is now imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth military prison after leaking details of classified government documents concerning alleged war crimes and rights abuses via WikiLeaks. American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio wrote on Twitter that Manning’s medical condition was not immediately available, according to Reuters.

Manning was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years’ imprisonment, with the possibility of parole in the eighth year after being convicted of leaking classified material to Wilileaks. The report claimed the incident occurred at the Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas and that Manning had tried to hang herself.

The base declined the AP’s request Wednesday for a telephone interview with Manning.

Manning is serving 35 years in federal prison for espionage and other offenses, and has admitted to “handing classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks”. Manning, who was an intelligence analyst in Iraq at the time, later filed a transgender prisoner rights lawsuit. The appeal contends Manning’s disclosures harmed no one, but prosecutors have said the leaked material damaged USA security and identified informants who helped US forces.