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Vanunu re-arrested

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday November 12, 2004 01:33author by Justin Morahan - Peace People

Dr Mordechai Vanunu was rearrested by between 30 and 50 police Thursday morning

Mordechai Vanunu was re-arrested Thursday morning at the Church of St George in Jerusalem where he was receiving sanctuary.
According to the Anglican Bishop of St George's between 30 and 50 men invaded the Church, some of them brandishing machine guns, and took Vanunu away.
"They terrified, terrorised the guests and the pilgrims, none of whom knew why this invasion happened with machine guns", Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, told the BBC News website. Vanunu's room was searched, his mobile phones, laptop, camera and notebooks were seized.
The invaders came in over the fences and through doors. Some Swedish pilgrims visiting the Church were shocked to tears, according to the Bishop.
A police spokesman said that Dr Vanunu would be charged at a court hearing on today, Friday.

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