A federal judge ordered Chelsea Manning back to jail Thursday after she refused to comply with a new grand jury subpoena in the WikiLeaks case.
“Attempting to coerce me with a grand jury subpoena is not going to work. I will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury,” Manning said before entering the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va.
Manning told the court she “would rather starve to death” than cooperate with the grand jury.
The former Army intelligence analyst was freed earlier this month after 62 days in jail for refusing to testify with the previous grand jury. She was released from jail when the grand jury’s term ended but was served with another subpoena requiring her to appear before a new grand jury.
An indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleges he conspired with Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer network in 2010.
Manning was convicted at a court martial trial in 2013 of leaking a trove of documents to WikiLeaks. Manning’s 35-year prison sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama just days before the end of his presidency in January 2017.
Assange, who was living in asylum in Ecuador’s Embassy in London since 2012, was arrested last month and sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaking his bail conditions after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden to face a rape allegation.
U.S. prosecutors are seeking to extradite Assange after he’s released from jail, but Sweden recently reopened the rape investigation, complicating those efforts.
