ORT MEADE, MD – JULY 30: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) is escorted by military police as arrives to hear the verdict in his military trial July 30, 2013 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Manning, who is charged with aiding the enemy and wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to the website WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Army Private First Class Bradley Manning. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Bradley Manning—the American Army Private who leaked thousands of sensitive and classified government documents to Wikileaks—was sentenced this morning to 35 years in prison.

After being on trial for more than two months in a Fort Meade, Md. courtroom, Manning was sentenced this morning for the multiple offenses he was convicted of, which includes six counts of espionage, five theft counts, and computer fraud. As the Guardian reported, these charges carried a maximum sentence of 90 years in prison, and the United States government was seeking at least a 60-year sentence. But one of Manning’s defense attorneys, David Coombs, asked the court martial for leniency, and it looks like it worked.

The Associated Press also reports that Manning’s sentence will be docked for the three-and-half years he has already spent locked up, and that he’ll be eligible for parole after serving at least one-third of the sentence.

A protest over Manning’s sentencing is expected to happen around 7:30 p.m. in front of the White House.

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