Wednesday, 18 January 2017

US - Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's prison sentence: Al Jazeera English

Published on 17 Jan 2017
Barack Obama has reduced the prison sentence of whistleblower, Chelsea Manning, in one of his last acts as US president.

The former US military intelligence analyst was serving 35 years for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to Wikileaks, the biggest such breach in US history.

She can now expect to be freed in May.

Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane reports from Washington, DC.

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