Australia may ban US whistleblower Chelsea Manning from entering country

August 29, 2018 21:42

The Australian government is considering banning the US whistleblower Chelsea Manning from entering the country for a speaking tour.

Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the US army who served in the Iraq war, spent seven years in a military prison after being convicted of leaking nearly 750,000 classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks.

Barack Obama commuted her original 35-year-sentence, and she was released in May 2017.

Manning is scheduled to give a speech at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night as part of the Antidote festival, as well as addresses in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Rappers Snoop Dogg and Chris Brown, the pickup artist Jeff Allen and the boxer Floyd Mayweather have all been denied visas on character grounds.

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