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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20050318i302.htm
イスラエル検察、元原子力技師バヌヌ氏を起訴
【エルサレム＝佐藤秀憲】イスラエル検察当局は１７日、同国の核開発に関する機密を暴露して国家反逆罪などで約１８年間服役後、昨年４月に出所した元原子力技師モルデハイ・バヌヌ氏を、外国人と接触した容疑で起訴した。
イスラエルは、バヌヌ氏の出所にあたって、機密の漏えいを警戒し、外国人との接触やイスラエル本土を離れることなどを禁じていた。
バヌヌ氏は出所後、複数の外国報道機関のインタビューに応じたほか、昨年１２月には、ヨルダン川西岸のパレスチナ自治区ベツレヘムに行こうとして拘束された。
(2005/3/18/10:07 読売新聞 無断転載禁止)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1533566,00.html
March 20, 2005
Vanunu defiant as Israel brings new charges
Peter Hounam
THE nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu reacted defiantly yesterday to criminal charges levelled by the Israeli authorities that could put him back in prison. He vowed to continue flouting orders that prohibit him from speaking to the foreign press because he believes that he has the right to freedom of speech.
Speaking through an intermediary from the cathedral in Jerusalem where he has sought sanctuary, Vanunu said he had always believed that the orders were unconstitutional and had therefore decided to ignore them. “This is a human rights issue,” Vanunu said.
“I want to work for world peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. I want the human race to survive.”
Vanunu worked as a technician at Israel’s nuclear weapons plant near the town of Dimona, but in 1986 he decided to expose its inner secrets to The Sunday Times. He was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Rome and smuggled home, where he stood trial for treason and espionage.
His gruelling 18-year sentence ended last April but restrictions were immediately imposed on him, including bans on leaving the country and speaking to foreigners. He soon began to infuriate the authorities by openly meeting visitors from abroad, including the foreign media.
Among 22 indictments filed last Thursday in the Jerusalem district court, Vanunu is accused of violating the restrictions by giving a joint interview to The Sunday Times and the BBC last May, although the interviewer was an Israeli.
Another charge says that last July he told a British journalist that he had “photographed a model of a neutron bomb and said he believed Israel had developed a hydrogen bomb”. This is presented in the charge as a revelation, but the Sunday Times articles in 1986 included Vanunu’s photographs of models of these types of weapon with explanatory details.
Another indictment said Vanunu had told the Sky television journalist Adam Boulton last December that he was “deliberately violating the restrictions imposed on him in order to make his case”.
In another charge Vanunu has been accused of attempting to leave Israel. The incident dates from Christmas Eve when he took a taxi to the West Bank town of Bethlehem with the aim of attending a carol service at the Church of the Nativity.
Michael Sfard, one of Vanunu’s lawyers, said: “Vanunu has fully served his sentence for what he did. Now the authorities seem to be trying to punish him all over again.”
Yael Lotan, a leading Israeli civil rights campaigner, said that the authorities were seeking to keep Vanunu permanently under their control: “The restrictions on him last year were due to expire in four weeks’ time. Now they can keep him in this country indefinitely. It makes me ashamed to be an Israeli.”
John Witherow, editor of The Sunday Times, said: “When we interviewed Vanunu last year we made sure the interview was conducted by an Israeli in compliance with the restrictions. He said nothing new about the Israeli nuclear programme because he knows nothing more. This newspaper published everything in 1986.”
BEIRUT BOMB FUELS CRISIS
The pro-Syrian president of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud, called for cross-party talks after a car bomb injured nine people in a Christian suburb of Beirut yesterday morning, raising fears of a return to sectarian violence, writes Tom Walker.
His appeal failed to halt a spiralling political crisis, however, with Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader and opposition figurehead, insisting he would not join a new government as long as Lahoud remained in office.
The opposition wants a neutral cabinet to make arrangements for elections due in May. It is also demanding the resignation of security chiefs linked to Syria and an international investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister, killed by a bomb on February 14.
Lahoud said Lebanon was experiencing “exceptional circumstances” that required “immediate and direct dialogue”.
“The doors of the presidential palace will be open at any time to host such a meeting,” he added.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/551096.html
Last Update: 12/03/2005 08:49
Report: BBC apologizes for uncensored Vanunu interview
By Haaretz Service
The British Broadcasting Corporation has bowed to an Israeli demand for a written apology from its deputy bureau chief in Jerusalem, Simon Wilson, who was barred from the country for failing to submit for censorship an interview with nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
Wilson was allowed to return to Israel on Thursday after signing a letter to the government acknowledging that he defied the law by ignoring demands from the security service and military censors to view tapes of an interview with Vanunu after he was released from 19 years in prison last year, according to the British daily.
The climbdown has angered some BBC journalists, who say it will compromise their work in Israel, the Guardian reported.
The agreement was to have remained confidential, but the BBC unintentionally posted details on its website before removing them a few hours later.
Officials close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demanded a letter of apology and a promise not to re-offend when the authorities refused to extend Wilson's work permit at the end of last year and barred him from re-entering Israel. At the time, the BBC said it could not meet such a demand.
The BBC website said Wilson had now acknowledged to the Israeli government that he was in the wrong.
"He confirms that after the Vanunu interview he was contacted by the censors and was asked to give them the tapes. He did not do so. He regrets the difficulties this caused," the BBC statement said.
"He undertakes to obey the regulations in future and understands that any further violation will result in his visa being revoked."
Wilson was not available for comment.
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