American whistleblower and former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Manning had left Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas on Wednesday morning, the BBC reported, citing a US Army spokesman.
In one of his final acts before leaving office in January, then-US President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year prison sentence.
The 29-year-old transgender whistleblower, who changed her name from Bradley to Chelsea after her sentencing, was convicted in 2013 for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were later released by WikiLeaks.
She has been imprisoned since 2010 and was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison for espionage, by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
Manning was working as an…