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Nuclear whistleblower denied basic freedoms by Israel
Published: 11 October, 2010, 20:31
Edited: 12 October, 2010, 04:32
TAGS: Arms, Nuclear, Middle East
The whistleblower who revealed details of Israel's nuclear programme in the 1980s is at the centre of another court case. Lawyers for Mordechai Vanunu are demanding he be allowed to live outside of Israel.
Vanunu spent 18 years in jail, including 11 years in solitary confinement.
Even after his release in 2004, his lawyers say he was denied basic freedoms of speech and movement, and was repeatedly arrested for violating prohibitions. This happened despite the fact that the information Vanunu has is either outdated or already widely-known.
Chairman of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian & Israeli Studies, and former member of the Knesset, Issam Makhoul labels Israel’s will to persecute Vanunu even after serving his prison term as “a great absurd”.
“This is a policy, which aims to terrorize any Israeli who tries to question or criticize the Israeli nuclear policy. I am sure that Vanunu does not endanger the security of Israel, he endangers the policy of the Israeli establishment on the nuclear issue. That's why they are trying to push him into a corner once and again,” Makhoul told RT.
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People of Conscience will NOT accept Israel's vindictive, inhumane treatment of Vanunu and the International Community has risen up! On October 4, 2010, the International League for Human Rights-FIDH/AEDH Germany, announced Vanunu was awarded the 2010 Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal and an international campaign was launched to assure he be at the Award Ceremony, in Berlin on December 12, 2010. “BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010” by me will hit PRINT and KINDLE in a few weeks and it EXPOSES the UNJUST Justice system in Israel that takes it's orders from SECURITY! I also relate some of the stories Vanunu told me about his childhood in Morocco and document his multiple crises of faith, 18 years in jail, and 6 ½ years under restrictions that have denied him his inalienable human rights of movement and speech. I was not a reporter when I met Vanunu in June 2005, but I was inspired to become one to tell his story and my experiences with hundreds of nonviolent Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights activists who are seeking security for Israel through justice for Palestine: an end to the military occupation, and that is also what “BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010” is about. Eileen Fleming, Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" WeAreWideAwake