http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/chelsea-manning-fort-leavenworth-attempted-suicide.html 2016-09-23 23:02:51 Chelsea Manning Is Sentenced to Solitary Over Prison Suicide Attempt An Army board is mandating that the former Army analyst in prison for leaking government documents sit in solitary confinement. === WASHINGTON — An Army board has decided to discipline Chelsea Manning, the former Army analyst, with two weeks of solitary confinement in connection with her suicide attempt in early July at the prison barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., her lawyer said on Friday. One week of that punishment is suspended, but would be reinstated if she got into any other trouble in the next six months, her lawyer, Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in an interview. Mr. Strangio also said that Ms. Manning, who is At the time of the leaks and her court-martial, Ms. Manning was known as Pfc. Bradley Manning. Mr. Strangio said his client’s suicide attempt was linked to her mounting despair that she might serve many more years in prison without being able to proceed in her gender transition. In a A military spokesman said it “would be inappropriate for the Army to comment at this time.” Ms. Manning’s lawyers have confirmed her suicide attempt, saying she was found unresponsive in her cell. She faced three disciplinary charges stemming from that episode: resisting a guard force team that entered her cell; conduct that threatened the orderly running of the prison barracks; and possessing prohibited property — a Ms. Manning’s statement said the board acquitted her of resisting the cell force team, but convicted her of the other two charges. The disciplinary hearing took place on Thursday, and its results were announced Friday morning. During Ms. Manning’s trial in 2013, it became clear that she had been struggling with gender dysphoria during the period when she downloaded the documents. At the time, she was deployed to the Iraq war zone and military rules After her conviction, she This month, Ms. Manning announced that she was on a hunger strike. She resumed eating after five days, saying the military had In late June, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter Ms. Manning’s 35-year sentence is the longest ever imposed for providing government secrets to the public. The documents she disclosed included diplomatic cables from American Embassies around the world, incident logs from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, intelligence dossiers about Guantánamo Bay detainees, and a video of a helicopter airstrike in Baghdad in which two Reuters journalists were killed. WikiLeaks made them public, working with various news organizations, including The New York Times.