Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, was convicted in July of 20 charges
against him, including espionage.
In
a statement read by his lawyer after the sentencing, Pte Manning said
he had acted "out of love for our country".
His
supporters have called on President Barack Obama to pardon the
soldier or commute his sentence to time served.
PteManning will receive a credit against his sentence of about three and
a half years, including time he has already served in jail and 112 days in recompense for the harsh conditions of his initial
confinement.
His
defence lawyer David Coombs said Pte Manning would first be eligible
for parole in about seven years.
Prosecutors
had asked for a 60-year sentence in order to send a message to future
potential leakers, and Wikileaks called the 35-year sentence a
"significant strategic victory".
Military prosecutors did not immediately comment.
In
addition to the prison sentence, likely to be served at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Judge Col Denise Lind sentenced Pte Manning to
be demoted to private and dishonourably discharged from the US Army,
and to forfeit his pay.
While
stationed in Iraq in 2010, the junior intelligence analyst passed
hundreds of thousands of battlefield reports and diplomatic cables to
Wikileaks, the pro-transparency group headed by Julian Assange. see more...
Source:
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