MP calls for nuclear whistleblower to visit UK
-17/12/04
A Labour MP has called on the U
MP calls for nuclear whistleblower to visit UK
-17/12/04
A Labour MP has called on the UK government to put pressure on Israel to allow Christian nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, to visit the UK.
The call came as Commons Leader Peter Hain MP congratulated Glasgow University students on their ìvery wise choiceî in electing Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu as rector.
Labourís Ann McKechin (Glasgow Maryhill) said the 50-year-old, whose post has been held by William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli and Winnie Mandela, had ìmade such a personal sacrifice over so many years for the cause of peaceî.
She called for Mr Hain to put pressure on the Israeli government to allow Mr Vanunu leave the country to visit the university.
Vanunu was freed in April after spending 18 years in prison for giving photographs and papers of a secret Israeli nuclear plant to the Sunday Times in the 1980s.
However, he was again arrested recently for allegedly revealing classified information when heavily armed police commandos stormed into the Bishop of Jerusalem’s church compound.
The nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was elected rector of Glasgow University this week. His supporters hope that it will help his campaign to be allowed to leave Israel, where he is still forbidden from talking to foreigners.
MP calls for nuclear whistleblower to visit UK
-17/12/04
A Labour MP has called on the UK government to put pressure on Israel to allow Christian nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, to visit the UK.
The call came as Commons Leader Peter Hain MP congratulated Glasgow University students on their ìvery wise choiceî in electing Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu as rector.
Labourís Ann McKechin (Glasgow Maryhill) said the 50-year-old, whose post has been held by William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli and Winnie Mandela, had ìmade such a personal sacrifice over so many years for the cause of peaceî.
She called for Mr Hain to put pressure on the Israeli government to allow Mr Vanunu leave the country to visit the university.
Vanunu was freed in April after spending 18 years in prison for giving photographs and papers of a secret Israeli nuclear plant to the Sunday Times in the 1980s.
However, he was again arrested recently for allegedly revealing classified information when heavily armed police commandos stormed into the Bishop of Jerusalem’s church compound.
The nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was elected rector of Glasgow University this week. His supporters hope that it will help his campaign to be allowed to leave Israel, where he is still forbidden from talking to foreigners.