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Rights groups: Manning is a UK citizen and deserves protection | Raw Story

3.2.11

bradleymanning 1215 Rights groups: Manning is a UK citizen and deserves protectionRights groups: Manning is a UK citizen and deserves protection | Raw Story: "Rights groups revealed Tuesday that Bradley Manning -- the US soldier accused of leaking 260,000 US State Department cables to secrets outlet WikiLeaks -- deserves the protection of the British government because he is a UK citizen.

'His Welsh parentage means the UK government should demand that his 'maximum custody' status does not impair his ability to defend himself, and we would also like to see Foreign Office officials visiting him just as they would any other British person detained overseas and potentially facing trial on very serious charges,' Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen told The Guardian Tuesday.

Under the British Nationality Act of 1983, Manning was considered to be a UK citizen because his mother was Welsh."


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