Obama Commutes Sentence of Former Solider Convicted of Leaking Classified Documents

US President Barack Obama has granted a commutation to Chelsea Manning, a former soldier who was convicted of Espionage Act violations and other charges for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. 
The convicted provided the documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, which then posted them online, creating an international sensation. 
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013, and she will now be released on May 17, according to her lawyer. The documents that were leaked, about the US military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, sparked a firestorm. She was one of 209 individuals granted commutations and 64 individuals who were given pardons by Obama today. 
Manning's commutation comes on one of Obama's final days in office. He has so far issued 1,385 commutations and 212 pardons.

Source: QNA