"After years of inhumane treatment, and having been held in conditions that the UN considers to be torture, Chelsea Manning, the Guardian columnist and whistleblower who has been in prison for years serving a 35 year sentence for exposing some of the U.S. government's worst abuses, attempted to take her own life July 5th, 2016," FreeChelsea.com has reported.

"Now, Army officials have informed her that she is facing serious new charges directly related to her suicide attempt."

In a special statement and call to action, the site reported the new charges include:

1) Resisting the force cell move team (Chelsea was unconscious when this team arrived, which makes this charge particularly absurd.)

2) Prohibited property (For the items she used to attempt to take her own life.)

3) Conduct which threatens (For somehow putting the prison at risk while attempting to take her own life, quietly, in her own cell.)

It said: "If convicted of these bizarre 'administrative offenses,' that are effectively charging her for attempting to end her life, she is facing indefinite solitary confinement for the rest of her prison term (another 30 years), 'maximum security' classification (in the same facility), and nearly a decade before she can ever be classified as a 'minimum security' prisoner.

"It is unnecessarily cruel to threaten Chelsea with additional punishment while in this very vulnerable state. The government is trying to silence her important voice — for good. Chelsea has been systematically mistreated by the U.S. government since she was first taken into custody in 2010, including long stretches of extreme solitary confinement even before she had ever been convicted.

"Chelsea is a transgender woman being forced to serve out her sentence in an all-male prison, which is in itself dehumanizing and exhausting emotionally. She is currently being denied medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, which experts have stated is the only course of treatment through which she would no longer be suicidal.

"This is not the first time the government has harassed Chelsea with outrageous charges while in prison. Last year, they threatened her with solitary confinement for minor 'infractions' including possession of LGBTQ reading materials and an expired tube of toothpaste. We gathered more than 100,000 petition signatures in response, and the outcry we generated kept her out of solitary.

"Now we need to do it again. Please, sign the petition and spread the word. Chelsea is depending on us."

ACLU Press Release: https://www.aclu.org/news/chelsea-manning-faces-new-charges-indefinite-s...

Fight for the Future Press Release: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2016-07-28-chelsea-manning-faces-...