Chelsea Manning

American soldier and intelligence analyst

Chelsea Manning - American soldier and intelligence analyst
Born

December 17th, 1987
37 years ago

Category

Activists & Humanitarians

Country

United States

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Served as an Army intelligence analyst and leaked classified military documents to WikiLeaks. The leaked materials included the Collateral Murder video, which showed a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed multiple civilians. Detained for her actions, faced a court-martial and was convicted in 2013, receiving a 35-year prison sentence. The conviction later resulted in a commutation by President Obama in 2017.

Leaked the Iraq War documents to WikiLeaks

Released the Collateral Murder video

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