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US: Political prisoners Manning and Lopez let out of jail

WIKILEAKS whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar Lopez were freed from US imprisonment yesterday.

Both political prisoners had their sentences commuted by outgoing president Barack Obama in his final weeks in office.

Ms Manning, formerly known as Bradley, was released quietly in the early morning from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.

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