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Toby Meyjes

Chelsea Manning released from jail after refusing to testify in Wikileaks case

Chelsea Manning has been released after being jailed for refusing to testify in a Wikileaks case, say reports.

The former US army intelligence analyst spent 62 days in prison for refusing to testify about her past association with the whistleblowing site.

However, despite her release she could be returned to custody as early as next week after her legal team was served a subpoena demanding she appears before a different grand jury on May 17, reports Gizmodo.

Her lawyers told the website: “Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove to District Judge Trenga that she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony."

Manning was previously jailed by US district judge Claude Hilton after being found in contempt of court.

The whistleblower could return to jail as early as next week (Getty Images)
Chelsea Manning transitioned from male to female while in prison (EPA)

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She served seven years of a 35 year sentence after turning over military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks which published them in 2010.

Her sentence was later commuted by Barack Obama.

She was jailed for contempt of court on March 8 after she declined to answer a grand jury's questions about Wikileaks.

Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, leaked more than 725,000 classified documents to the website, while serving in Iraq.

US whistleblower Chelsea Manning's case became a cause célèbre for human rights activists (FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EPA-EFE/REX)
She leaked more than 700,000 files to Julian Assange's Wikileaks (X80001)

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The files she handed over to the whisteblowing organisation, headed by Julian Assange, included a video of a US aircraft killing 12 people in Iraq.

In the footage, recorded in 2007, one crew member can be heard bragging 'hahaha, I hit 'em.'

Manning confessed to her crimes in a 2013 court martial, pleading guilty to 10 offences.

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