8.37pm BST

We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage of the Manning sentencing. We've just published our latest news story by Paul Lewis here. Here's a summary of where things stand:

• Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison minus time served and is to be dishonorably discharged from the military. He is expected to have his first parole hearing in seven years, should the current sentence stand up to appeal, according to defense lawyer David Coombs.

• Manning's legal team said the sentence was unreasonably severe. In a remarkably sustained criticism of the proceedings and the result, Coombs suggested the trial was unfair, said the trial never should have been secret, and said murderers and child molesters he'd represented had received shorter sentences. He vowed to see the case through to Manning's parole.

• The Manning lawyers plan to lodge a formal request for a pardon or commutation from President Barack Obama. However Coombs pointed out that the administration had an unparalleled track record for prosecuting leakers (not for pardoning them).

• Manning was said to have met the news with equanimity. Coombs said Manning tried to get his lawyers to stop crying. "He looks to me, and he says, 'It's OK. It's alright. I know you did your best. I'm going to be OK. I'm going to get through this.'"

• Professors, legal experts and civil rights groups called the sentence "outrageous" and unprecedented." Rights groups said it would have a chilling effect on potential whistleblowers, discouraging them from reporting wrongdoing out of fear for their futures. It's "seriously wrong" for a soldier who shared information with the public to be punished "far more harshly than others who tortured prisoners and killed civilians," the ACLU said in a statement.

• The sentence is under appeal. Manning was expected to be transferred today to Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas. He turns 26 in December.