Israeli nuclear whistleblower under house arrest pending new criminal charges

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Israeli nuclear whistleblower under house arrest
Mordechai Vanunu breaches terms of 2004 jail release by meeting 'a number of foreigners', says Israeli police
By Simon Tisdall
December 29, 2009

Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison after he revealed Israel's secret nuclear programme, has been placed under house arrest pending criminal charges for allegedly breaching the terms of his 2004 release, which includes a ban on contacts with foreigners.

A police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Vanunu was accused of meeting with "a number of foreigners". The spokesman, however, did not specify who the foreigners were or where they came from.

Vanunu's lawyer, Avigdor Feldman, said his client had been arrested because his romantic attachment to an unnamed Norwegian woman had come to the attention of the authorities.

"Vanunu was arrested a relationship between a man and a woman, with a Norwegian citizen," he told Reuters. "He is not being accused of giving any secrets. She is not interested in nuclear business – she's interested in Mordechai Vanunu is probably interested in her."

The woman has reportedly been interrogated by police but has not been charged with any offence.

Vanunu has fallen foul of the no-foreigners rule before. In 2007, he was sentenced to six months in jail for talking to non-Israelis.


Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu arrives at a Jerusalem court.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/29/mordechai-vanunu-under-house-arrest

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1. He was tried for treason !!!???

Radio New Zealand News
December 31, 2009

An Israeli nuclear whistleblower has been arrested for violating a ban preventing him from speaking to foreigners.

Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician, spent 18 years in prison for leaking information about Israel's nuclear programme to a British newspaper in 1986.

He was tried for treason after Israeli intelligence agents kidnapped him in Rome.

A ban on contact with foreigners was imposed as a condition of his release in 2004. He is being held under house arrest.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/12/31/1245dab0c28b