After being confined alone in a cell for 23 hours per day in a detention facility in Quantico in the state of Virginia, Pte Manning was transferred to Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas in April.
At the detention area in Cuba, each detainee is to be kept in an outdoor cell -- with a wooden ceiling and sides made of chain-link fencing -- until construction of a detention facility is completed.
One week after his trial began, Mr Zeidabadi went on a hunger strike to protest his detention, and was hospitalized for 17 days after he was found unconscious in his cell.