Mordichai Vanunu about to be released from prison (sort of)

April 20, 2004

From the “Mordechai Vanunu”:/vanunu site:
bq.. “PEACE HERO” MORDECHAI VANUNU, LEAVING PRISON IN HOURS, WILL BE GREETED BY WHITE DOVES, FLOWERS… AND YET MORE PUNISHMENT
In less than twelve hours, Israel’s cap­tive Mordechai Vanunu is to walk out of Shik­ma Prison, where his home was a cell for the last 18 years. Over 100 inter­na­tion­al anti-nuclear, peace and human rights activists, and at least as many Israeli sup­port­ers of the nuclear whistle­blow­er will assem­ble out­side the prison gate at 8:00 am Wednes­day morning
Then the leash stiff­ens, and the col­lar tight­ens. Although his full sen­tence has been served and all his secrets have been told, Mordechai Vanunu’s next pun­ish­ment is to shun all con­tact with for­eign­ers and most mod­ern com­mu­ni­ca­tions while con­fined to the city of Jaf­fa for one year. He is denied his pass­port and is for­bid­den to enter embassies or approach bor­ders and air­ports. He may not talk to Israelis about his work at the nuclear weapons fac­to­ry in Dimona, nor even recite his pub­lished rev­e­la­tions from the pages of the Lon­don Sun­day Times in Octo­ber, 1986.