UK blames US for military maltreatment

Islam Times reports from Press TV: The British Foreign Office said it has contacted the US in March over the British Bradley Manning's bad condition of imprisonment.

The 23-year-old was held in a solitary confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, which is a military detention. Manning was stripped each night and made to wear a suicide-proof smock before going to bed.

His lawyers together with the lawmakers have discussed his case with a new approach.

"All people who are detained in custody deserve to be treated in detention according to the highest international standards, and we certainly expect nothing else, nothing less, from the United States," British Foreign Office minister Henry Bellingham said to lawmakers.

"(Those conditions serve) no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade Bradley Manning. I regard it as cruel and unnecessary," opposition Labour Party lawmaker Ann Clwyd said in the House of Commons Monday.

In March, the chief State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, resigned following the maltreatment of Manning, who was charged for leaking classified data to the WikiLeaks secret-spilling site.

British Foreign Office minister said he would "instruct our officials at our embassy in Washington again to report our concerns to officials in the State Department," asking Foreign Secretary William Hague to take action against the US military.

WikiLeaks has deeply angered the US by publishing tens of thousands of secret documents over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Hundreds of documents, showing the inhuman methods the British government has used to defeat its colonial rule in the 1950s, have recently been released in London.

The human rights lawyer Paul Muite said what the British soldiers have done in their then colony is "shameless and immoral."