Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in jail for giving WikiLeaks files that formed the biggest breach of official secrets in American history.
The 25-year-old could apply for parole and be freed within a decade, and his lawyer has issued a plea to president Barack Obama to pardon the soldier.
Manning had faced up to 90 years in prison for providing more than 700,000 documents, battle videos and diplomatic cables to the anti-secrecy website.
He appeared ashen-faced moments before he heard his fate in a courtroom at Fort Meade military base in Maryland, close to the US capital.
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