Juan Mendez, special rapporteur on torture for the United Nations, just completed his 14-month investigation into the case of Bradley Manning. He concludes that the man accused of leaking thousands of confidential diplomatic cables to Wikileaks has been abused during the course of his detention by the United States government.

“The special rapporteur concludes that imposing seriously punitive conditions of detention on someone who has not been found guilty of any crime is a violation of his right to physical and psychological integrity as well as of his presumption of innocence,” Mendez writes.

However, Mendez told The Guardian that he could not reach a conclusion on whether the prisoner has been tortured because the military has repeatedly denied requests to interview Manning under “acceptable circumstances”. (The Pentagon has refused to allow Mendez to see Manning in private, insisting that all conversations must be monitored.)