Manning Moving to New Detention Facility

The U.S. army private charged with leaking state secrets gets an accommodations upgrade as he awaits trial.

Bradley Manning, the American army private facing more than a dozen charges for handing Pentagon documents over to WikiLeaks, will be moved to a military detention centre with better mental and physical health-care facilities than the marine base where he's been held for eight months. Defence officials said that Manning was being moved to the pretrial holding centre at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, because he had passed a test to determine whether he was fit to stand trial, and not because the care he received at the base was substandard. The conditions of Manning's detention have been criticized both within and outside the U.S. as excessive, as the 23-year-old's mental-health state had deteriorated to the point where he was placed on suicide watch for three days in January.