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Private American Army Bradley Manning, convicted of transferring secret documents to the Wilileaks website, considers himself a woman. He wrote about this in a statement read on the air of NBC's Today his lawyer. The application was signed by Chelsea Manning.
Menning notes in the statement that he felt like a woman since childhood and wants to start hormone therapy as quickly as possible. His lawyer hopes that the prison will provide him with this procedure.
Throughout the process, the question of gender self -identification of manning has been mentioned more than once. Lawyers put forward the theory that she could influence his decision to drain secrets. Manning was inclined to feel like a woman and sometimes signed by the name of Breanna Manning, introducing himself as a woman.
The day before, a military court in the United States sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison . Judge Colonel Denise Lind also announced a manning with a shame dismissed from the armed forces and to hold part of his salary. The prosecutors demanded a term of 60 years for a manning. He will be credited with 3.5 years in preliminary imprisonment.
On July 30, a military court found Manning guilty of 20 points, including spying. At the same time, the accusation of the enemy, threatening him with a lifelong conclusion, was removed from manning. But for the remaining accusations, he was theoretically threatened with 136 years in prison.
The trial of the WikiLeaks informant has been held since the beginning of June. The prosecutor characterized Manning as a traitor. The lawyer, for his part, represented his client as a humanist who acted from the best motives.
Manning was a military analyst in the army. He was arrested in 2010, after a secret video recording of the attack of an American military helicopter in Iraq in 2007 appeared on WikiLeaks, during which two journalists were killed.
The founder of the WikiLeaks project Australian Julian Assange managed to avoid extradition in the United States, having received political asylum in Ecuador. Since June 2012, he lives at the embassy of this country in London. In July 2013, Assange announced the creation of the WikiLeaks party in Australia, which should take part in the parliamentary elections outlined in September.