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Chelsea Manning refuses to testify again, ordered back to jail

Chelsea Manning is being sent to jail again, just a week after being released.

The former Army intelligence officer has refused to testify before a grand jury about WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange, which put her behind bars for two months in early March.

Manning has routinely insisted that she will never cooperate with a grand jury, regardless of any punishment.

As well as her imprisonment, Manning will also be fined $500 a day after 30 days and $1,000 a day after 60 days, US District Judge Anthony Trenga ruled Thursday according to BuzzFeed News.

Chelsea Manning released from jail two months after refusing to testify about WikiLeaks

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ABC NEWS – ABC News’ ‘Nightline’ co-anchor Juju Chang sits down with Chelsea Manning for the first exclusive television interview since Manning’s prison release. The interview will air on an upcoming special edition of Nightline, ‘Declassified: The Chelsea Manning Story.’
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U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, who was born male but identifies as a woman, imprisoned for handing over classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, is pictured dressed as a woman in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013.Courtesy U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY

NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 25: Chelsea Manning and Gavin Grimm ride with the ACLU in the 2017 Pride March on June 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)

People hold signs calling for the release of imprisoned wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning while marching in a gay pride parade in San Francisco, California June 28, 2015. Manning has appealed to an Army court to overturn her court-martial conviction, a court filing released on Thursday said. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

A placard showing Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden photos is seen during the Easter March for Peace in Roemerberg, Frankfurt, Germany, 06 April 2015. Some 2000 demonstrators gathered before the City Hall to advocate for peace, under the motto ‘Stop war and war propaganda – Solve conflicts peacefully’. Thousands have gathered to participate in over 80 events for peace during the Easter period in Germany. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

ODEONSPLATZ, MUNICH, BAVARIA, GERMANY – 2015/10/10: Demonstrators gather to protest against surveillance especially by the NSA. Amnesty International demands Obama to hand over his peace Nobel Price to Chelsea manning. (Photo by Michael Trammer/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse during his court martial at Fort Meade in Maryland, August, 20, 2013. Manning, 25, the soldier convicted of giving classified U.S. files to WikiLeaks, could face as up to 90 years in prison for giving more than 700,000 classified files, battlefield videos and diplomatic cables to the pro-transparency website. Prosecutors asked for 60 years, while the defense asked the judge not to rob him of his youth. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana (UNITED STATES – Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW MILITARY)

Demonstration for Chelsea Manning in London, England, United Kingdom. Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning) is a United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly three-quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents. Manning was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years imprisonment, with the possibility of parole in the eighth year, and to be dishonorably discharged from the Army. Manning is a trans woman who, in a statement the day after sentencing, said she had felt female since childhood, wanted to be known as Chelsea, and desired to begin hormone replacement therapy. From early life and through much of her Army life, Manning was known as Bradley; she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder while in the Army. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Demonstration for Chelsea Manning in London, England, United Kingdom. Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning) is a United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly three-quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents. Manning was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years imprisonment, with the possibility of parole in the eighth year, and to be dishonorably discharged from the Army. Manning is a trans woman who, in a statement the day after sentencing, said she had felt female since childhood, wanted to be known as Chelsea, and desired to begin hormone replacement therapy. From early life and through much of her Army life, Manning was known as Bradley; she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder while in the Army. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

ABC NEWS – ABC News’ ‘Nightline’ co-anchor Juju Chang sits down with Chelsea Manning for the first exclusive television interview since Manning’s prison release. The interview will air on an upcoming special edition of Nightline, ‘Declassified: The Chelsea Manning Story.’
(Photo by Heidi Gutman/ABC via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 25: Chelsea Manning and Gavin Grimm ride during the 2017 Pride March in the West Village on June 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)

ABC NEWS – ABC News’ ‘Nightline’ co-anchor Juju Chang sits down with Chelsea Manning for the first exclusive television interview since Manning’s prison release. The interview will air on an upcoming special edition of Nightline, ‘Declassified: The Chelsea Manning Story.’
(Photo by Heidi Gutman/ABC via Getty Images)
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Manning, who served seven years behind bars for espionage for leaking classified information, including a video of an American helicopter shooting at Iraqi citizens, before having her sentence commuted by former President Barack Obama, has been tied to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s recent arrest on April 11 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Prosecutors claim that Assange conspired with Manning to gain access to classified information from Department of Defense computers in 2010.

Manning was released from the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center last Thursday after 62 days behind bars due to a technicality as the grand jury’s term expired.

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