Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
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(NEWSER) – Former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who made WikiLeaks a household name in 2010, will be released from prison in May after President Obama commuted her sentence Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
Manning leaked classified military documents that revealed, among other things, the Iraqi military abusing detainees and the likely under-reporting of civilian deaths in Iraq. She was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in prison, according to USA Today.
Manning, a transgender woman being housed in a men’s prison, has tried to kill herself twice in the past year.
Her commutation was part of 64 pardons and 209 commutations made by Obama on Tuesday.
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