Chelsea Manning may be banned from visiting Australia because she doesn’t meet the country’s ‘character’ test

• The Australian government is preparing to ban whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning because she does not meet the country’s “character requirement.” 
• The former soldier spent seven years in prison for releasing a trove of classified military documents to Wikileaks. 
• Manning had previously been denied entry to Canada in 2017 because of her criminal record. 

The Australian government is preparing to ban whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning because she does not meet the country’s “character requirement.” 

The former soldier spent seven years in prison, including 11 months in solitary confinement, for leaking a trove of classified military documents to Wikileaks which revealed information about US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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