NEW: Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning jailed after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia.
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Earlier in the day, Manning told reporters that she was prepared to go to jail following the closed contempt hearing for her resistance to provide testimony because she doesn't believe in the grand jury process. "I responded to each question with the following statement: ‘I object to the question and refuse to answer on the grounds that the question is in violation of my First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment, and other statutory rights," Manning said in a statement.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking a trove of military intelligence records to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. Her sentence wasA day earlier, a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia denied a motion filed by Manning's attorneys challenging aManning told The Associated Press Tuesday that she didn't know what case she was being called to testify about.
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