US whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to give evidence to a grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks.

Ordering her to be imprisoned on Friday, US District Judge Claude Hilton said she will remain behind bars until she testifies, or until the grand jury finishes its inquiry.

The former US Army intelligence analyst told the judge she “will accept whatever you bring upon me”.

Manning has said she objects to the secrecy of the grand jury process, and that she already revealed everything she knows at her court martial.

Her lawyers had asked that she be sent to home confinement instead of the jail, because of medical complications she faces.

The judge said US Marshals can handle her treatment needs.

Manning was convicted of espionage and other offences by court-martial in 2013.

She leaked some 700,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts to WikiLeaks while she was an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010.

Sentenced to 35 years in jail, she was released in 2017 after former US president Barack Obama commuted her sentence.

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