
WikiLeaks informant Bradley Manning, who previously decided to change the floor and now bears the name Chelsea, was released from custody in the American state of Virginia. This was reported by the CNN television company.
Manning spent 62 days in prison. She was taken into custody in early March, whenshe refused to testify before the jury in the court in the case of WikiLeaks. The reason for the refusal to testify was the uncertainty manning in the confidentiality of the trial conducted by the jury of the jury. She was released after the change of jury.
Manning will appear before a new jury court on May 16. If she refuses to testify, she can be found guilty of disrespect for the court and is again placed in custody.
The analyst of American military intelligence Bradley Manning, who had the rank of ordinary first class of the ground forces, was arrested in 2010 for transferring WikiLeaks more than 700 thousand military and diplomatic documents, as well as video files. These secret data concerned the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, contained hundreds of dossiers on special fiction prisoners based on American Navy in Guantanamo, as well as messages that the State Department employees exchanged. Later, most of these data were published on the WikiLeaks website. This was the largest leakage of secret information in American history at that time.
In August 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. In conclusion, he replaced the floor to the female , and the name to Chelsea. In January 2017, Chelsea Manning, by decision of US President, Barack Obama, was pardoned. In May 2017, she was released .