WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment slammed

Channel News Asia Monday 5th March, 2012

GENEVA: US authorities' treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning was "cruel and degrading," the UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez said Monday."I believe Bradley Manning was subject to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was in Quant...

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