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May 10, 2017

Imprisoned Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Will Be Freed Next Week
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Imprisoned Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning will be freed next week.
In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking more
than 700,000 classified files and videos to Wiki Leaks about the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy. In January, the White
House said she would be released on May 17, after President Obama
commuted her sentence. On Tuesday, Chelsea Manning released a statement
saying, "For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea. I
can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and can finally
be in the outside world. Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of
but never allowed myself to fully imagine." Her attorneys say she is
already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.


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