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Vanunu refused letters from his time in prison
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Tuesday July 26, 2005 00:48 by Justin Morahan - Peace People
Supreme Court of Israel says No "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others." The Supreme Court of Israel has today refused to return letters from his time in prison to whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu. The letters are his private property. They were confiscated by the Israeli Secret Service. |
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Vanunu petitioned the court to receive copies of the letters he wrote during his 17 year imprisonment for exposing Israel's nuclear weapons program.
During this time he wrote 2,543 letters, which were censored before they were sent friends and supporters throughout the world. Vanunu kept copies and marked the words and sentences that were censored.
Vanunu claims in his petition that the director of Shikma Prison in Ashkelon, where he served his sentence, promised him that all the documents that were taken away from him will be checked and returned to him, but it did not happen.
more at
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3117681,00.html
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Court rules that Vanunu cannot retrieve prison-era letters
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/604495.html
Vanunu's representative, attorney Dan Yakir from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, suggested that the state also censor the copies of the letters. But the justices upheld the state's claim that the volume of letters and the difficulty of reading them would make the censoring a "huge task - time, money and manpower-wise."