On or before this November 13th, Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu will learn the Israeli Supreme Court's decision regarding his appeal to cancel his Israeli citizenship, filed on the 5th of May and which can be read in full here:
Vanunu Mordechai asking ,CANCEL,Revoking my Citizenship-MAY 5-2011.The Israeli Supreme Court was to render its decision by August 13th but the Government requested the three-month delay.
Vanunu filed the appeal as a way to escape the state where he has been held against his will under restrictions that have bound him in Israel since he emerged on 21 April 2004, from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell because he was convicted of treason in 1986.
From 1976 through 1985, Vanunu was a nuclear plant technician and shift manager in Israel's Dimona nuclear facility. Because he was an excellent worker he was cross-trained in many areas. When Vanunu realized he was a cog in the making of nuclear weapons, he suffered a crisis of conscience and acting on his own, one night he shot two rolls of film in various top-secret locations after a supervisor carelessly left the keys in a shower room.
A few months later Vanunu quit, left Israel and carried the undeveloped film throughout Europe for nine months until he met Peter Hounam, an investigative journalist while in Sydney, Australia. Twenty-five years ago, Hounam broke the news that Israel had upwards of 200 nuclear warheads for the London Sunday Times, just as the Mossad was kidnapping Vanunu. After a closed door trial Vanunu was sentenced to eighteen years in jail, most all if it in solitary confinement.
Upon release and under restrictions not to speak to foreigners, Vanunu granted hundreds of interviews. Israel brought charges against him in January 2006 and in July 2010, Israel sent Vanunu back to solitary confinement for 78 days in a maximum-security prison.
Eileen Fleming's third book, "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker 2005-2010" documents the whistle blower's saga that will again make headlines on or before November 13, 2011.
" Mordechai Vanunu is a prisoner of conscience...The restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu arbitrarily limit his rights to freedom of movement, expression and association and are therefore in breach of international law. They should be lifted and he should be allowed to start his life again as a free man."- Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International's Middle East Programme, 18 June 2010
About the Author:
Eileen Fleming was writing her first historical novel when she met Vanunu in Jerusalem in June 2005. That meeting began a series of interviews which culminated in her third book and only fund raising vehicle in her run for US House of Representatives 2012, District 5, Florida.
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