Israeli nuclear whistleblower Vanunu seeks asylum in Norway
12/4/08
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has asked for asylum in Norway for a second time, Norwegian officials said on Friday, but they held out no hope that he would be accepted. Vanunu, whom Israeli authorities have barred from leaving Israel, sent his application directly to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. His first asylum application to Norway in 2004 was rejected. “We received it yesterday and it has been sent to the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion, which will handle it,” a spokeswoman for the Norwegian prime minister’s office said. Vanunu was convicted of treason and imprisoned for 18 years after telling a British newspaper in 1986 about his work as a technician at Israel’s main atomic reactor, disclosures which cracked the secrecy around the assumed Israeli nuclear arsenal.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974087.html
Tags: Human Rights, Israel, Nuclear