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ObsoleteNerd on March 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]

The link above goes to paying her legal team. Her fine will come from her own funds separately. Your lawyers don't pay your fines, you do personally.

Ideally, her legal team or someone would put up a separate fundraiser for her fine, that goes specifically to paying that. I for one would definitely donate.

pyuser583 on March 13, 2020 [–]

Many fundraising platforms explicitly forbid raising funds to pay criminal fines.

freeone3000 on March 13, 2020 | [–]

We need a paypal link and a github pages site, not necessarily a kickstarter. She's a high profile enough case to not need a dedicated platform.

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