因泄密入獄的曼寧要求減刑
U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years in prison for leaking classified documents, is asking President Barack Obama to commute her sentence to time served. She said in her application to the president, released by her attorneys, that there is no historical precedent for such an extreme sentence for leaking documents.
Manning, a former intelligence analyst in Iraq, has served more than six years of a 35-year sentence for leaking more than 700,000 secret military documents as well as battlefield videos to WikiLeaks.
Since being convicted, the soldier, originally called Bradley Manning, has said she identifies as a women. She tried to commit suicide last month while in solitary confinement, where she was placed after an earlier suicide attempt.
Manning wrote in her application to the president that she is living through "a cycle of anxiety, anger, hopelessness, loss and depression."
She is being held at the Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas. Manning is not asking for a pardon, meaning her conviction will stay on her record.因泄漏機密文件被判35年監禁的前美軍情報分析員切爾西·曼寧請求奧巴馬總統爲她減刑。曼寧律師公佈了她向奧巴馬提交的申請。申請說，美國從未有過因泄漏機密文件而被判如此重刑的先例。
曼寧原任美軍駐伊拉克情報分析員，她由於向維基揭密泄漏了70多萬份軍事機密文件以及軍事影像資料而被判35年監禁，她現已服完六年多的刑期。
切爾西·曼寧過去叫布萊德利·曼寧，她被判刑後改變性別，從男性變爲女性。曼寧上個月被單獨關押時曾試圖自殺，她就是因爲自殺未遂才被單獨關押的。
她在寫給奧巴馬總統的信中說，她現在生活在焦慮，憤怒，無助，失落和抑鬱之中。
目前曼寧被關押在堪薩斯州利文沃斯堡軍事監獄。曼寧要求的不是赦免，也就是說她的有罪判決不會取消。
