Chelsea Manning posted a photo on Twitter revealing she completed gender reassignment surgery over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The convicted leaker tweeted Saturday a picture of herself in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n
After almost a decade of fighting - thru prison, the courts, a hunger strike, and thru the insurance company - I finally got surgery this week, Manning wrote.<\/p>\n
Manning, 30, acknowledged leaking more than 700,000 military and State Department documents to anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks in 2010. Known as Bradley Manning at the time of her arrest, she came out as transgender after her 2013 court-martial. She was later sentenced to 35 years in prison after she was found guilty of leaking the military and diplomatic documents.<\/p>\n
CHELSEA MANNING, CONVICTED LEAKER, COMPARES LIVING IN US TO PRISON<\/p>\n
Manning served seven years in prison before her sentence was commuted in 2017 by former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
She recently spoke at the Royal Institution in London and compared living in the United States as a free person to being locked up in prison.<\/p>\n
\"You think about the fact that we have walls around our country, and that is very much the same thing that is inside a prison,\" she told a crowd. \"I see a lot of similarities between the world out here and the world that was in there.<\/p>\n
Manning was previously barred from entering Australia, but allowed to enter New Zealand for a scheduled appearance.<\/p>\n
Fox News' Travis Fedschun contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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