Barack Obama Cuts Chelsea Manning's Prison Sentence
Channel: Left Side Krew
Date: 19/01/2017

US President Barack Obama has slashed the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former US army intelligence analyst jailed for leaking classified files to WikiLeaks.
Key points:

    Former US army intelligence analyst Manning was jailed for leaking files to WikiLeaks
    Mr Obama, in the last days of his presidency, has slashed Manning's sentence from 35 years to less than four
    Commuting of Manning's sentence sparks speculation about Julian Assange's future

Who is Chelsea Manning?

Here's what we know about the woman responsible for the largest breach of classified information in America's history.

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.