The American military justice has added 22 new charges against the soldier Bradley Manning, a former military intelligence analyst accused of pirating hundreds of thousands of federal documents that were found on Wikileaks.
Manning would illegally obtaining these records while serving in Iraq.He is held in Quantico, a basic body of U.S. Marines in Virginia.
In a statement, the military said Wednesday that the new charges against him include in particular the charges of aiding the enemy and participation in the unlawful disclosure of information on the Internet.
Bradley Manning, who is 23 years old, had already been prosecuted for such downloaded and sent to an unauthorized person confidential video of the attack in 2007 in Baghdad by a U.S. military helicopter.Ten
people were killed, including two employees of Reuters.
The army says it will not claim the death penalty against Manning, even if the charge of aiding the enemy is punishable by death. But the former analyst risk life imprisonment.
His trial was postponed time that a commission's decision on his mental state.
Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the website Wikileaks, has denied knowing Bradley Manning. He accuses the U.S. of using the detained soldier to build a case against him.
