I would now like to address all "relevant authorities" and the State of Israel Ministry of Justice The Human Rights and Foreign Relations Department points 1-13: regarding
On April 30, 2007, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court,
convicted Vanunu on 14 [out of 21] counts of violating a court order
prohibiting him from speaking to foreign journalists in 2004. Vanunu was also
convicted for traveling the four miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem when he
hoped to attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of the Nativity, his first
Christmas after being released from 18 years in jail [most of it in solitary]
on April 21, 2004.
On July 2, 2007, Israel sentenced Vanunu to six more months in jail for
speaking to foreign media in 2004.
On September 23, 2008, the Jerusalem District Court reduced Vanunu's six-month
jail sentence for speaking with foreign media in 2004, to three months,
"In light of his ailing health and the absence of claims that his actions
put the country's security in jeopardy."
After appealing that sentence, the Israeli Supreme Court returned Vanunu to
jail on May 23, 2010, after they refused his counter-offer to do three-months
of community service in Arab east Jerusalem, the only community he has known
since 21 April 2004.
The Court insisted Vanunu must serve in west Jerusalem, which is 99% Jewish-populated, but Vanunu feared attack there by angry Israelis, most of whom consider him a traitor, and thus his three month sentence in solitary began on 23 May 2010.
The
restrictions that have subjected Vanunu to 24/7 surveillance [his movements,
phone calls and emails] for the last six years come from the Emergency Defense
Regulations, which were implemented by Britain against Palestinians and Jews
after World War II. (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
Attorney Yaccov Shapiro, who later became Israel's Minister Of Justice,
described the Emergency Defense Regulations as "unparalleled in any
civilized country: there were no such laws in Nazi Germany."
Israel also kidnapped Vanunu in 1986, but Article 9 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states: "No one shall he subjected
to arbitrary arrest or detention", including abduction of a person by
agents of one state to another state.
Vanunu was charged with and convicted of treason and espionage.
