There are many examples through the years of American leaders adopting the presidential pardon or commuting sentences - with some proving hugely controversial.

The younger Clinton, who was sentenced to two years in prison for possessing cocaine and drug-trafficking in 1985, had served a year in prison at the time of the pardon. In 2017, President Barack ...

Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier jailed for ... 35-year sentence before he left office earlier this year but did not pardon her. Under Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act ...

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst behind one of the largest leaks of classified information in history, was among a group of activists arrested Thursday outside of House ...

Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks. A Virginia judge ordered her taken into custody until the grand jury ...

had served a year in prison at the time of the pardon. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted all but four months of the remaining prison term of Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army intelligence ...

It’s not just Hunter Biden – presidents as far back as George Washington have faced criticism for their presidential pardons ... visiting fellow offer to Chelsea Manning.

Binoy Kampmark reports on his conversion to whistleblower and support for Julian Assange. Italian artist Davide Dormino’s life-sized bronze sculptures of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward ...

Former US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been arrested in the halls of Congress for protesting against a ban on transgender women using women's bathrooms. Manning, 37, was among a group of ...

A pardon forgives federal criminal offences ... with the public as Ford fell to election defeat in 1976. Chelsea Manning was behind an unauthorised release of sensitive US government material.