> Is a result where he ends up in jail an unfair result?
NO. If we had set a high bar for wanting a free and fair trial (which we haven't) then the case would be decided in an open manner which could very well end in jail time, community service or some equivalent. I fully support that process.
Manning was a military officer and is at trial through the UCMJ, his rights are not the same as a private citizen. Additionally, the 'inhumane' treatment that is described in the UN report would mean that pretty much all the prisons in the US should be shut down (an outcome I wouldn't really oppose), but it seems about average for military justice. Keep in mind that the 'punitive' suicide watch kept him in solitary for about a week longer than he should have been there [1]. It's not like he was waterboarded.
“On two occasions … a medical officer determined that suicide risk
status was no longer warranted and the brig staff did not immediately
take PFC Manning off the suicide risk status,” Galaviz wrote in his
February 23 findings. In one instance, the suicide watch continued
for five days after doctors recommended it be canceled and in another
it went on for two to three days, the review found.
And I'm not sure what Guantanamo has to do with anything, there have never been any americans held there, and if it weren't for obstruction in congress, that hell hole would be shut down already.
[1] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58991.html#ixzz2XF...