Obama Interrupted by Singing Woman at Fundraiser

(CNN) -- A woman wearing a T-shirt supporting WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning interrupted President Barack Obama at a California fundraiser Thursday by breaking into song.

After completing her song, in which others at her table joined as it progressed, the unidentified woman was escorted out by two White House aides as she said: "Free Bradley Manning. I'm leaving. I hope I don't get tortured in jail."

Manning, an Army private first class suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks, was transferred to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, this week.

The 23-year-old military intelligence analyst from Oklahoma had been held in the brig at Quantico Marine Base south of Washington. Supporters complained he was confined in a one-man cell for 23 hours a day and forced to sleep without clothing. Protesters including "Pentagon Papers" leaker Daniel Ellsberg demonstrated on Manning's behalf last month.

The Pentagon has maintained that Manning was held in accordance with rules governing all maximum-custody detainees at Quantico, for his protection and the safety of others, and that Manning was on "POI" status, for "prevention of injury."

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