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Chelsea Manning granted commutation

Chelsea Manning granted commutation

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Thursday, January 19, 2017


Obama reduced the sentence of Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning 29 years before she was due to be released. In 2010, Manning released a trove of documents to Wikileaks. Most people convicted of leaking have received sentences of between one and three years. bFM reporter Amanda Robinson speaks to Margaret Taylor from Amnesty International about the historic move.