Official is accusing the United States of torturing whistleblower Chelsea Manning with her continued incarceration a letter from the world body special rapporteur on torture to the Us Government from last november has now only just come to light the practice of coercive dipper of asian of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation at the order of judicial authorities such deprivation of liberty does not constitute a circumscribed sanction for a specific offense but an open ended progressively severe measure of coercion filling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Chelsea manning was a u. S. Military Intelligence Analyst but was arrested in 2010 for leaking classified information to wiki leaks she was convicted in 2013 to 35 years in prison president obama commuted her sentence just before leaving office