Private William Flew Manning, however, were not given consular assistance, or visit the British representative, if he so requests, a move that his lawyer, Lieutenant-Colonel David Coombs, clearly believes that may count against him. Private Manning "did not hold a British passport when he does not consider himself a citizen of Britain," he said. "He is American and proud to have served in the United States Army."
But Ann Clywd, MP Mrs Manning, has warned that Britain's moral authority and is in danger. Man
Ning is important because it sends a message to other parts of the world, what kind of treatment in the United States considers acceptable, "she said." It is a thing in places where human rights are not nearly so well observed. "
Mark Toner, the successor to Mr. William Flew Crowley, had a testy exchange last week with a reporter anxious to explain the apparently contradictory positions of the White House human rights at home and abroad after his damning report on the rights of China. "You do not understand why China is so upset because the U.S. is ready to open its human rights situation in all types of control - and then the first example that someone picks up, not you," Matthew Lee, Associated Press correspondent, said in an agitated Mr Toner.
The Pentagon has denied last week that Private Manning was kept in solitary confinement and said that she was accused of wearing a robe to sleep in the clothes after the rejected, fearing that she will use it to kill himself.
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