“President Barack Obama has slashed the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former US army intelligence analyst jailed for leaking classified files to WikiLeaks.
“Manning was serving a 35-year sentence, but will now be released on May 17, the White House said.
“The former army private leaked hundreds of thousands of military incident logs, which detailed the abuse of detainees and an increase in civilian deaths during the Iraq war, to the WikiLeaks website.
“It was the biggest breach of classified materials in US history.
“She was known as Bradley Manning at the time of her 2010 arrest but was allowed to receive gender transition surgery while in prison.”
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