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Manning was kept in solitary in Iraq, Kuwait and Quantico, Virginia following his arrest in Iraq in 2010. During his incarceration in Quantico U.S. Marine Base he was tortured. He is presently held at a military facility in Virginia.

The gathering in London included Australian, Canadian, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish, U.S. and Welsh supporters of Bradley Manning. Organisations represented included Global Women's Strike, the Jesuits, London Catholic Worker, Payday men's network, Veterans for Peace UK.

Speakers included a wife of a serving British soldier, an American citizen, a British veteran of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a Gay Rights advocate, a playwright, and a military resister solidarity activist who briefed those gathered on developments at Bradley's pre-trial in Ft. Meade.

Speakers also reflected on the recent slaughter of nine children and seven adult civilians by U.S. military in Afghanistan. the moral bankruptcy of Obama and Cameron in prosecuting these wars and their pursuit of whistleblowers exposing the war crimes under their and past British and U.S. administrations.