- The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has sentenced nuclear
whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to six months in jail for violating the
terms of his parole.
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- Vanunu, a former technician at Israel's nuclear plant
near the southern town of Dimona, spent 18 years in prison for giving details
of the country's atomic program to British newspaper "Sunday Times"
in 1986.
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- Upon his release in 2004, Vanunu was banned from leaving
the country and talking to foreigners without approval, because Israeli
authorities claimed he could still divulge classified information.
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- Some two months ago, Vanunu was convicted of 14 parole
violations including contacts with journalists and attempts to leave Israel
proper to go to Bethlehem, which is in the West Bank.
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- The court's sentence was unexpected, and even the prosecution
expected the court to hand down a suspended sentence, meant solely as a
deterrent.
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- Vanunu's attorneys, Michael Sfard and Avigdor Feldman,
said before the conviction was handed down that the terms of their client's
parole order were unreasonable.
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- According to the verdict, "The order stemmed from
the fact that the accused had hoarded in his memory classified information
that has not been released, and the release of which could harm the security
interests of Israel."
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- After the verdict was announced, Vanunu said that his
conviction proves that Israel is still ruled, in effect, by the British
mandate, because the law under which he was convicted is from that era.
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- "Maybe I need to turn to the queen or to Tony Blair
in order to grant me justice," he said.?
- Comment
- Mary Sparrowdancer
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- Vanunu gets 18 years in solitary for telling the truth
and trying to make the world a safer place, and now he is returned to jail
for daring to visit Bethlehem and speaking out about the aparthied Wall
that Israel has built around the Palestinians.
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- Libby is set free for lying and obstructing justice,
and helping to make the world less safe.
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- I wouldn't bother looking for justice in this world,
John Crossman (Vanunu's Christian name), because there is no justice in
this world as things stand. There will be no justice until we take this
world back from the arrogant and unaccountable elite.
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