Chelsea Manning
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chelsea Elizabeth Manning,[2][3] (born Bradley Edward Manning; December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was diagnosed with gender identity disorder while in the Army.[4] After Adrian Lamo exposed Manning leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks in 2011, readers of The Guardian chose her as 2012's person of the year.[5]
On 21 August 2013 Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison,[6] but was released on 17 May 2017 by order of President Barack Obama on 17 January 2017.[7]
On January 11, 2018, she announced plans to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland to challenge the state's senior senator, two-term incumbent Ben Cardin, as a Democrat in the June 26, 2018 primary election.[8] She lost the primary election to Cardin.
On March 8, 2019, she was held in contempt of court by a United States District Court judge for refusing to testify to a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and except for a brief period of release between May 9 and May 16 has been jailed continuously.
On March 11, 2020, she tried to commit suicide in the federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia.[9][10][11]
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Early life
Manning was born in Crescent, Oklahoma.
References
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