by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
The recent meeting of the NEC’s policy committee has 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. As I recently reported, he has been placed...
by admin | Jan 11, 2010 | international, whistle blowing
Mordechai Vanunu, an honorary member of the NUJ, who served 18 years in prison for revealing 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...
by admin | Mar 9, 2005 | Campaigns, international, Israel, Vanunu, whistle blowing
This April sees the first anniversary of the release of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower. Vanunu walked out of Ashkelon prison on 21 April 2004, but he was still not a free man. In an attempt to silence him, the authorities imposed draconian...
by admin | Apr 27, 2004 | international, Israel, nuj, Vanunu, whistle blowing
PREAMBLE: In the late summer of 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli citizen, gave evidence to the London Sunday Times that Israel was developing nuclear weapons. Vanunu had discovered this while he was employed at the Dimona Nuclear Power Plant in the Negev Desert and,...
