![]() Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. She was sentenced to 35 years at the maximum-security U.S. The trial on the remaining charges began on June 3, 2013, and on July 30, she was convicted of 17 of the original charges and amended versions of four others, but was acquitted of aiding the enemy. She pleaded guilty in February 2013 to 10 of the charges. She was held at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico in Virginia, from July 2010 to April 2011, under Prevention of Injury status-which entailed de facto solitary confinement and other restrictions that caused domestic and international concern -before being transferred to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she could interact with other detainees. ![]() Manning was charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy, which was the most serious charge and could have resulted in a death sentence. The material was published by WikiLeaks and its media partners between April 2010 and April 2011. diplomatic cables and 482,832 Army reports that came to be known as the " Iraq War Logs" and " Afghan War Diary". The material included videos of the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan 251,287 U.S. Lamo indirectly informed the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, and Manning was arrested in May that same year. In early 2010, she leaked classified information to WikiLeaks and confided this to Adrian Lamo, an online acquaintance. Īssigned in 2009 to an Army unit in Iraq as an intelligence analyst, Manning had access to classified databases. A trans woman, Manning stated in 2013 that she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning. ![]() She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower.
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