WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is recovering after attempting suicide in her prison cell, her lawyers say. The 32-year-old ex-Army intelligence analyst was rushed to hospital from Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia on Wednesday after being given first aid.
She is being held for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, and was due at a court hearing on Friday.
Manning previously spent seven years in military prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified US documents in 2010.
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