Wikileaks’ Assange offers to face trial in the US if Chelsea Manning is released

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered today to surrender to the United States under a single condition — that Chelsea Manning be released from the US Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth, Kansas. Manning, a transgender woman — born Bradley Manning — currently serving the remainder of her 35-year prison sentence after being convicted under the Espionage Act after leaking nearly 750,000 classified — or unclassified, but ‘sensitive’ — military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 2013. Manning was arrested after confiding in another intelligence officer, Adrian Lamo, and charged with 22 crimes — including ‘aiding the enemy,’ an offense punishable by death.…

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