Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning was convicted by court-martial of violating the Espionage Act by disclosing nearly 750,000 classified or sensitive military documents to WikiLeaks in early 2010. She was imprisoned from 2010 to 2017 before her sentence was commuted through a pardon by President Barack Obama, and she was released. She has since been imprisoned and remains in prison for refusing to testify in the trial against Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. The material she disclosed included videos of July 12th, 2007 Baghdad airstrike and an airstrike in Afghanistan in 2009, which lead to a serious charge of aiding the enemy, though she was eventually acquitted of this charge and avoided the death sentence.