Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is scheduled to be released soon from prison after serving an 18-year sentence for blowing the whistle on Israel's weapons of mass destruction. However, Israel is also forbidding him from communicating with foreigners or moving about without permission and has been told that any infraction of these rules will land him back in prison without trial. In 1986, Vanunu provided photographs to back up a major story in the Sunday Times newspaper in London, which detailed his work for Israel's covert nuclear arsenal at its Dimona plant. In retaliation, an American Jewish woman working for Mossad, Israel's secret service, lured him from London to Rome, where he was kidnapped back to Israel, convicted of treason and espionage in a secret trial, and subjected to long periods in solitarity confinement.