MEPs sent letter to Obama before possible penalty of death of soldier leaked documents on Wikileaks

Some sixty MEPs have yesterday sent a letter to the U.S. President, Barack Obama, to show their rejection of the charges punishable by the death penalty that weigh against the Bradley Manning, suspicious soldier filter thousands of secrets to WikiLeaks documents and that it has been 17 months in prison.

Members of the European Parliament warn that the charge of "helping the enemy" that weighs against the soldier, of 23 years, "it is punishable with the death penalty," a criminal measure rejected by the European Union.

In the Charter, which calls for a fair trial to Manning, MEPs refer to "the very serious losses of the civil rights of the soldier Manning".

In addition, MEPs say felt "disappointed" because the U.S. Government denied the request of the Special Rapporteur against torture of the United Nations to visit Manning in the center of confinement of Quantico (Virginia, USA).

One of the signatories, MEP u000aPortuguese group of the European United Left (GUE/NGL) Marisa Matias has delivered symbolically the open letter to Obama to the representative of the Organization "Veterans for peace" (Veterans for peace) Gery Condon.

The former American military has appreciated the gesture of signing MEPs and has denounced the situation in which Manning.

"Thanks to this soldier have known that the killing of civilians by the U.S. Army was larger in that it had told us, both Iraq and Afghanistan", stated the representative of "Veterans for peace".

"Reveal war crimes should not constitute an offence, rather the crime should be cover those crimes, as did the American authorities", has been added.

Will be sent copies of the letter that you will receive Obama to members of Congress and the U.S. Senate, Secretaries of Defense and the Navy, and the Embassy u000aAmerican before the EU.

The soldier, who will be subjected to a December 16 hearing to decide if it should appear before a court martial, takes 17 months deprived of his liberty without that has still been able to appear before the judge.

The military faces to 52 years in prison after being accused of facilitating hundreds of thousands of diplomatic documents that the website WikiLeaks published and that they generated controversial world.

Manning was arrested after being denounced by the hacker Adrian Lamo to be "deep throat" Wikileaks, and charged the military American authorities of violating the military code.

According to the indictment, the soldier had access to documents when it was intended in the Base operational advanced Hammer, some 60 kilometers east of Baghdad (Iraq), and I could see two classified U.S. Government, SIPRNET (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) and Joint Worldwide Intelligence networks u000aCommunications System.

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