Israeli nuclear weapons revealer has parole hearing
kdjgbn | 30.10.2002 22:12
Request for information on the status of Mordechai Vanunus' prison sentance, (He's the nobel peace prize winner who revealed Israels, secret, illegal nuclear weapons programme to the world.)
Does anyone know the result of the hearing detailed in the letter to the guardian below ?
Time to free Vanunu
Tuesday October 29, 2002
The Guardian
Today Mordechai Vanunu will take his place in an Israeli court, submitting a case for his immediate parole after serving well over two-thirds of an 18-year sentence.
Vanunu was kidnapped from Rome by Mossad agents because he told the Sunday Times of Israel's secret stockpile of nuclear weapons, manufactured at Dimona Nuclear Research Centre, where he had worked as a junior technician. Concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, Vanunu gave his information because he thought the world should know the truth, and the Israeli public have the chance to debate the threat posed by their possession of these weapons.
In the interests of justice Vanunu's parole application should be granted. Holding him for over 16 years in prison, 12 of which were spent in solitary confinement, has been condemned by Amnesty International as inhuman. Vanunu's continued imprisonment cannot be justified. He has suffered enough; his calls for peace should be made beyond prison walls.
Ben Birnberg, Bruce Kent, Yael Lotan, Harold Pinter, Andrew Wilski, Susannah York
Campaign to Free Vanunu
kdjgbn
Homepage:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,821173,00.html
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free vanunu
30.10.2002 23:32
dh
not illegal
31.10.2002 09:47
Israel should be persuaded to follow the same guidelines that everyone else subscribes to (and some of them keep to), but the fact that it doesn't is not illegal or even wrong.
Josh
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Vanunu's parole hearing postponed
31.10.2002 17:35
Mordechai Vanunu, imprisoned Israeli whistleblower, was scheduled to have a hearing on October 29, to appeal the decision of the Parole Committee not to grant him early release. Vanunu has completed 16 years of an 18-year
sentence. Most prisoners in Israel are eligible to be released after serving two-thirds of their sentence. Recently, a Parole Committee decided to release convicted murderer Yonah Avrushmi, who in 1983 threw a grenade
into a Peace Now demonstration, killing Emil Grunzweig and wounding several others.
Vanunu's brother Asher said today, that the Court postponed the hearing, as it has done repeatedly in the course of the last 18 months, without setting a new date. No reason was given for the postponement.
If not released on appeal, Vanunu is scheduled to be released in April 2004, almost 18 years after he was illegally kidnapped by the Mossad in Italy and forcibly brought to Israel to stand trial in camera.
Last month Vanunu was the recipient of two prestigious peace awards: the Nuclear Free Future Award and the Francisca Mateos Fight for Peace Award for 2002.
stuart