The sentencing of Mordechai Vanunu

1988 Mordechai Vanunu (b. 1954) was sentenced by an Israeli court to eight years' imprisonment for revealing Israel's nuclear program to England's Sunday Times.

He was kidnapped on September 30, 1986, and famously gave reporters clues to his predicament by writing details on the palm of his hand which he held up to the window of the vehicle he was being taken away in.

Vanunu was tried in secret, convicted of treason, sentenced on March 24, 1988 to 18 years in prison and spent many years in solitary confinement.

Vanunu was released from detention on April 21, 2004. Upon release Vanunu claimed his abduction had been by the CIA rather than Israel’s notorious Mossad secret agency as widely reported.

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