The young Chelsea Manning was condemned for a massive leak of documents to Wikileaks
GAYLES.TV.- Just a couple of days before the end of his term, the president of the United States, Barack Obama, has commuted the grief to the former soldier Chelsea Manning responsible for the leakage of a record number of secret documents to Wikileaks while serving as an intelligence analyst for the army deployed to Iraq between 2009 and 2010. The leaks consisted of reports of incidents from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that included “exposure of detainee abuses by Iraqi military forces allied Americans, also that the number of civilian deaths in Iraq was much higher than the official estimates collected ”. Manning is also responsible for the leak of a video that shows the attack by a US helicopter that killed two journalists in Iraq.
Manning, who at the trial still responded to the name of Bradley, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, the highest penalty ever issued for a crime of leaking to the media, the usual range between one and 3 years. When he leaves prison Fort Leavenworth, Kansas May's 17 will have completed 7 years of sentence as reported“The New York Times”.
In prison, he began a sex change treatment, but his release will mean that the military is not responsible for any type of medical procedure related to the transition, which will force Manning to seek medical attention abroad. Despite this, Chelsea is satisfied and grateful for Obama's decision, since he had frequently denounced mistreatment in the prison of men in which he was serving time. Among other things, he was denied physical exercise, he had been intimidated on many occasions, he was forced to meet male aesthetic standards, and he was punished for having LGTBI reading materials that were not approved by the prison officials. All this had led him in the last year to start a hunger strike that led to two weeks of solitary confinement. The sum of all these circumstances led him to attempt to kill himself on two occasions.
At the trial, Manning pleaded guilty and apologized for the leaking of documents from the war and other State Department information, asserting that his intention had never been to cause any harm to the interests of the US , but he did not ask for forgiveness for his personal convictions regarding what he had denounced.
The reaction on the Internet has not been expected and within minutes of the commutation of the penalty, Wikileaks has described Obama's decision to win. For his part, the well-known ex- National Security Agency Edward Snowden, has congratulated Manning by encouraging him to resist the remaining 4 months before being released.
In total, Obama has announced the commutation of sentence to 209 imprisoned people and the forgiveness to other 64. Thank you, president!
Sources: advocate.com, ccma.cat
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