Activists protest on behalf of Manning

Using the slogan “Nobel Laureates SHOULDN’T IMPRISON Nobel Nominees,” anti-war and LGBT-rights activists protested what they called “the Obama administration’s prosecution of alleged WikiLeaker Private Bradley Manning” outside the UIC Forum April 23.

Manning, a nominee, is facing life in prison for allegedly providing WikiLeaks various U.S. State Department cables. The cables, according to a press release from the Gay Liberation Network (GLN), “exposed the Bush and Obama administrations’ dirty dealings with a host of dictators and human rights abusers around the world, and evidence of U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

GLN and Occupy Chicago sponsored the protest.