Israeli nuclear whistleblower jailed for 6 months
JERUSALEM: An Israeli court ordered on Monday nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to return to jail for six months for violating an order restricting his contact with foreigners.
Vanunu, a former technician at Israels nuclear plant near the southern town of Dimona, spent 18 years in prison for giving details of the countrys atomic program to a British newspaper in 1986. Upon his release in 2004, Vanunu was banned from leaving the country and talking to foreigners without approval, because Israeli authorities claimed he could still divulge classified information.
A Jerusalem regional court found in April that Vanunu violated 14 counts of those restrictions by holding unauthorized contacts with foreigners through the Internet and by entering the West Bank. On Monday the court sentenced him to six months in jail and a further six months suspended sentence. Following the conviction, Vanunu said the ruling proved that Israel is not a democracy.
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