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Chelsea Manning Reportedly on “Short List” for Presidential Commutation

HeadlineJan 12, 2017

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is reportedly on a short list of names for a possible presidential commutation. NBC News reports a senior Justice Department official said a decision could come this week. In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy. Manning has been held since 2010. She has been subjected to long stretches of solitary confinement and denied medical treatment related to her gender identity.

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