Bradley Manning gets 35 years
Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for leaking "hundreds of thousands" of confidential documents to anti-secrecy website Wikileaks.
In 2010 Manning handed over videos exposing the murder of two Iraqi journalists by a US Army helicopter crew and the abuse of detainees by Iraqi officers under the control of American forces, as well as more than 700,000 files of classified US State Department cables.
Last month a US military court found Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, a crime for which if found guilty he could have been sent to prison for life. However, Manning was convicted of 20 charges including violations of the Espionage Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the US code of military justice, which could have seen him face up to 90 years in prison.
