Chelsea Manning jailed again for refusal to testify in WikiLeaks case

Whistleblower will be held to force her testimony in secret case investigating WikiLeaks.

Chelsea Manning, who spent more than three years in prison for leaking US military secrets to WikiLeaks, was jailed again Friday for refusing to testify in a grand jury investigation targeting the anti-secrecy group.

Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to be held not as punishment but to force her testimony in the secret case, according to a spokesman for the US attorney in the Alexandria, Virginia federal court.

"Chelsea Manning has been remanded into federal custody for her refusal to provide testimony" to a grand jury, said a statement from The Sparrow Project, a support group for Manning.

They cited Hilton as saying