A man blows the whistle on WMDs in the Middle East, and is kidnapped and jailed 18 years, over 11 years in solitary confinement. Iraq under Saddam. No. Israel which has disgraced itself.
Mordechai Vanunu has spent 18 years in prison in Israel after being illegally kidnapped in Italy.
Since his release in 2004, Vanunu "was sentenced to six more months in prison for violating terms of his parole. The sentence was considered unusual even by the prosecution who expected a suspended sentence. In response, Amnesty International challenged the detention, issuing a press release on July 2, 2007, stating:
Mordechai Vanunu has spent 18 years in prison in Israel after being illegally kidnapped in Italy.
Since his release in 2004, Vanunu "was sentenced to six more months in prison for violating terms of his parole. The sentence was considered unusual even by the prosecution who expected a suspended sentence. In response, Amnesty International challenged the detention, issuing a press release on July 2, 2007, stating:
'The organization considers Mordechai Vanunu to be a prisoner of conscience and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. (from Wikipedia)'"
Writes activist Eileen Fleming:
Mordechai Vanunu was informed that the Israeli government has continued his house arrest in Jerusalem and has renewed all the restrictions against him, for the fourth time and third year of captivity in east Jerusalem.
Although 'freed' from 18 years in jail on April 21, 2004 for telling the world Israel had gone nuclear (in the London Sunday Times, October 5, 1986) Vanunu has been forbidden to leave Israel, forbidden to speak to media and to foreigners under the draconian restrictions of the Emergency Defense Regulations (EDR) which were implemented first by Britain against Palestinians and Jews after World War II.
After WWII, a leading Jewish attorney, Yaccov Shapiro, who became Israel's Minister of Justice described the EDR as 'unparalleled in any civilized country: there were no such laws in Nazi Germany.'
Israel's worse nightmare: Enforcement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Mordechai Vanunu was informed that the Israeli government has continued his house arrest in Jerusalem and has renewed all the restrictions against him, for the fourth time and third year of captivity in east Jerusalem.
Although 'freed' from 18 years in jail on April 21, 2004 for telling the world Israel had gone nuclear (in the London Sunday Times, October 5, 1986) Vanunu has been forbidden to leave Israel, forbidden to speak to media and to foreigners under the draconian restrictions of the Emergency Defense Regulations (EDR) which were implemented first by Britain against Palestinians and Jews after World War II.
After WWII, a leading Jewish attorney, Yaccov Shapiro, who became Israel's Minister of Justice described the EDR as 'unparalleled in any civilized country: there were no such laws in Nazi Germany.'
Israel's worse nightmare: Enforcement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
