Israeli "nuclear spy" Vanunu sentenced to 3 months in prison
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JERUSALEM - Former Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, who spent 18 years in prison for espionage, was sentenced to three months in prison for refusing to perform public work in West Jerusalem, judicial sources said on Wednesday.
- The Israeli Supreme Court rejected the appeal submitted by Mr Vanunu sentenced in December to three months in prison and three months of public works for violating an order forbidding him any contact with foreigners.
In his appeal, Mr Vanunu said he was ready to do his work but in East Jerusalem, the Arab majority area annexed in 1967, and not in the west, in the Jewish Holy City, "for fear that the Israeli population affects his person".
The Supreme Court rejected the argument of Mr Vanunu saying that authorities had found a public interest work in West Jerusalem that suits him.
During the hearing, the prosecutor said that Mordechai Vanunu was still "endangering state security, even 24 years after his first arrest.
Mr Vanunu, 55, has served 18 years in prison for espionage after revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to the London weekly « The Sunday Times » who had published them.
Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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