by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | Campaigns, Vanunu, whistle blowing
The Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Middle East writes… “Last year, on 26 April, we held a well-supported vigil at the Israeli Embassy in London, to mark the 10th year since Mordechai Vanunu was released from Ashkelon prison, only to be put under severe restrictions of...
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | Campaigns, Israel, Vanunu, whistle blowing
An update on my blog of 5 April ‘Help Mordechai pay this outrageous fine’ from Vanunu supporters in the UK in a recent circular reads as follows: ‘Following the appeal we sent out in March we can report the very good news that Mordechai has now been able to pay the...
by admin | Apr 3, 2014 | international, Israel, Vanunu, whistle blowing
In August, it was reported that Avigdor Feldman, Mordechai’s lawyer, had finally managed to lodge an appeal against Mordechai’s continuing restrictions and the surveillance he was subjected to. However, it was not until after a couple of postponements...
by admin | Aug 7, 2012 | international, whistle blowing
On 11 March 2011, Japan was hit with the largest earthquake in its recorded history. The earthquake and its following tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on the east coast, about 150 miles north of Tokyo. Shocked by these events, and his...
by admin | May 13, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
On 16 February I blogged that the union had agreed to back a campaign of support for Mordechai Vanunu, an honorary member of the NUJ, who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israel’s secret nuclear programme to the Sunday Times in 1986. Earlier this week,...