Whistleblower in suicide bid

WIKILEAKS whistleblower Chelsea Manning is recovering in hospital after a suicide attempt in jail.

Manning has been in prison since May last year for refusing to testify before a US grand jury probing Wikileaks and the website’s founder Julian Assange over publishing classified government files. She was due to appear in court yesterday for a hearing on her request to be freed.

The ex-US army intelligence analyst, 32, spent seven years in jail – during which she revealed she was transgender – before her 35-year sentence was commuted in 2017.