Wikileaks accused stripped naked

The lawyer for a jailed US Army private suspected of leaking classified documents to the WikiLeaks website says his client was stripped of all his clothing at night because he had made sarcastic comments about using underwear to commit suicide.

Pfc Bradley Manning’s civilian lawyer, David Coombs, said in a blog post yesterday that his client’s clothing was taken away at nights after Manning remarked that if he wanted to harm himself he could do that with “the elastic waistband of his underwear or with his flip-flops”.