9:21pm, Wed 21 Aug 2013 WikiLeaks soldier jailed - last updated Wed 21 Aug 2013 US soldier Bradley Manning was jailed for 35 years at a military court in Maryland. Photo: Reuters

US soldier Bradley Manning has been jailed for 35 years for giving WikiLeaks more than 700,000 US military and diplomatic documents.

The 25-year-old was convicted last month of espionage, theft and other charges in the biggest leak of classified information in American history.

He was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious of the charges against him.

Sitting before a military judge at Fort Meade in the US state of Maryland, Manning was also told he would be dishonourably discharged from the US army and will forfeit some pay.

Manning's lawyer announced he is to formally request that US President Barack Obama pardons his client.

Speaking at a news conference after following the sentencing, David Coombs said: "The time to end Bradley Manning's suffering is now.

"The time for our president to focus on protecting whistle-blowers instead of punishing them, is now. The time for our president to pardon Bradley Manning is now."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hailed the sentencing a "significant tactical victory" but said the former US soldier's trial and conviction was an "affront to western justice".

In a statement, he said: "While the defence should be proud of their tactical victory, it should be remembered that Mr Mannings trial and conviction is an affront to basic concepts of Western justice...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is among the 278 nominees for a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, according to Peace Research Institute Oslo, an institution that closely tracks the Nobel committee's work.

Putin, who of course is now at the center of one of the world's most dangerous situations the crisis in Ukraine has been "nominated by the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among the Nations of the World and backed by Russian MP Iosif Kobzon, for his averting of an air strike on Syria after the chemical gas attacks in August 2013," PRIO reports.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the Nobel committee, the 278 nominations for this year's prize "is the highest number of candidates ever. The previous record was 259 from 2013."

We've reported before that the so-called NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, is among the nominees.

Among others who PRIO says it has confirmed are on the list:

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen who was shot by the Taliban because of her outspoken support for the education of girls. She was a nominee last year as well.

Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning. The Army private is now serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking the largest amount of classified information in U.S. history.

Yousafzai and Snowden have made it onto PRIO Director Kristian Berg Harpviken's shortlist of likely Peace Prize honorees. The other three people he puts on that list:

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Raw video: Bradley Manning arrives for sentencing
Raw video: Bradley Manning arrives for sentencing.

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Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case.

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A FORMER US Army private who leaked top secret documents has been praised by the Oxford Union after picking up an award.

Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was awarded, in her absence, this years Sam Adams Prize for integrity in intelligence and the honour was marked with a ceremony on Wednesday night.

The prize is awarded annually by a group of former CIA workers.

Awards spokesman David Swanson said that Oxford Union held the event to recognise her for casting much-needed daylight on the true toll and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, human rights abuses by US and coalition forces, mercenaries, and contractors and the roles that spying and bribery play in international diplomacy.

Fellow intelligence documents leaker Edward Snowden made a video for the ceremony in which he also congratulated Ms Manning.

Ms Manning is currently serving a 35-year prison sentence in a US military prison for leaking nearly a million classified US government records to WikiLeaks.

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Prosecutors had urged a minimum of 60 years for the U.S. Army soldier who had been convicted for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Bradley Manning is escorted out of a military court facility at Fort Meade, Md., ahead of his sentencing hearing.

Bradley Manning has been sentenced to serve 35 years in prison for turning over hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks.

Handed down by Colonel Denise Lind on Wednesday, the sentence follows the court's verdict on July 30 that found Manning guilty of nearly all charges against him, though not guilty of the most serious charge, aiding the enemy. Judge Lind had presided over an eight-week court martial in Fort Meade, Md.

Manning's rank will also be reduced from private first class to private, the U.S. Army Military District of Washington said in a press release. He will forfeit all of his pay and allowances and be dishonorably discharged from the military.

Manning could have faced as much as 90 years in jail, though prosecutors had urged a minimum sentence of 60 years. In his closing argument Monday, Capt. Joe Morrow said that a lengthy sentence would deter other soldiers from following Manning's path, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

The defense team had asked for a sentence of no more than 25 years, giving the 25-year-old the opportunity to rebuild his life upon release.

Manning must serve at least one-third of his sentence before he's eligible for parole, the Guardian added. Counted toward that time will be the 1,182 days he served in confinement before the trial and the 112 days of "unlawful punishment" he received in a military brig in Quantico, Va.

David Coombs, Manning's lead attorney, will discuss the sentence at a press conference to take place around 10:30 a.m. PT at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve in Hanover, Md.

Manning had pled guilty to 10 charges and was found guilty of 20 of them, including wrongful possession and transmission of national defense information, theft of government information, unauthorized access to a government computer, wrongful possession and transmission of protected government information, violation of lawful regulations related to his computer use and storage of classified information, and wrongful publication of U.S. intelligence information.

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