Chelsea Manning, who spent more than three years in prison for leaking US military secrets to WikiLeaks, was jailed again Friday for refusing to testify in a grand jury investigation targeting the anti-secrecy group.
Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to be held not as punishment but to force her testimony in the secret case, according to a spokesman for the US attorney in the Alexandria, Virginia federal court.
"Chelsea Manning has been remanded into federal custody for her refusal to provide testimony" to a grand jury, said a statement from The Sparrow Project, a support group for Manning.
They cited Hilton as saying Manning would be held indefinitely "until she purges or the end of the life of the grand jury."
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