17-01-2017 22:39 via huffingtonpost.co.uk

Chelsea Manning To Be Freed In May As Barack Obama Commutes 35 Year Jail Sentence

President Barack Obama has commuted the jail sentence of Chelsea Manning, who is to be freed from jail in May.
The soldier was branded a traitor for leaking classified government and military documents to WikiLeaks.
Manning, who is serving a sentence at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, has served seven years of her 35-year sentence.
The commuted sentence will allow Manning to be freed on May 17 of this year.
The 29-year-old confessed to sending the secret military and diplomatic documents
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