Petition to Governments etc

by Althea
Please feel free to use this petition in any way you can. websites, newspapers, send to Government Rep., UN, All International Bodies and Faith Communities.

This is the statement which we are putting into the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Sunday 30th April.

Noam Chomsky, Nobel Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, well known names in Israeli/Palestine and world community will be invited to sign. If you know of such well-known willing to sign please send them immediately to. Thank you

Subject: The petition
To the Government of Israel
Stop mistreating Mordechai Vanunu!
Lift restrictions imposed on him!

In the past week the Government of Israel has extended for the third year
the restrictions it imposed on Mordechai Vanunu when he was released from prison.
He is released from prison. He is forbidden to leave Israel;may not move freely inside Israel; is forbidden to speak to foreign nationals "for fear of causing damage to the State".

Mordechai Vanunu served the sentence that was imposed on him -18 years-in prison, of which he spent 11 and a half years in complete isolation.

He came out of prison wholly committed to the idea of a world without Weapons
of Mass Destruction-the same idea he upheld when he was in imprisoned.He remains convinced of the rightness of this cause.

The element of vengence is plain to see. No-one in their senses believes that Vanunu represents a threat to the security of Israel.He told everything he knew to the Sunday Times in 1986.

All the experts in Israel and abroad-except those who speak for the Secret Services-agree that after 20 years away from the Dimona reactor Vanunu has not a shred of information that could endanger the security of the State.

The restrictions imposed on Mordechai Vanunu violate the basic rights of citizens
in a democratic country -the freedom of expression and of movement. These restrictions also conflict with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention on Political and Civil Rights.

Mr.Prime Minister, the Chiefs of the Security Security Services of Israel-

Let Mordechai Vanunu leave, to live wherever he chooses. He would like to have a family of his own and to exist as a free man without Big Brother dominating his existence.

Let Mordechai go free

(On May 1th the go the court hearing will take place in Jerusalem)

www.vanunu.com