Chelsea Manning to Write Columns for The Guardian

Chelsea Manning, the Wikileaks leaker formerly known as Bradley Manning who was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison, has joined The Guardian US as a contributor.

The Guardian US editor-in-chief says that Manning will write on war, gender, and freedom of information.

According to Politico, Manning will not be compensated.

In August of 2013, Pvt. Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for supplying WikiLeaks with 700,000 classified documents in 2010. Manning was found guilty on charges under the Espionage Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the code of military justice but was spared the charge of aiding the enemy, the most serious of all the charges. If convicted of that crime, Manning could have face up the 90 years behind bars.

Shortly after her sentencing, Manning revealed that she was transgender, suffering from gender dysphoria a condition in which a person does not identify with the sex assigned to them at birth.

Manning recently sued the Department of Defense over allegedly stalled gender treatments.

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