Imprisoned US soldier Chelsea Manning has ended a hunger strike after the army said she would be allowed to receive gender transition surgery, the American Civil Liberties Union has announced.

Two days before being due to present her defence against alleged 'discipline infrigments', whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been denied access to the legal library at the jail where she is serving her wholly disproportionate prison sentence of 35 years for releasing documents which revealed the truth of clandestine government communications, Fight For The Future reports.