Sharon: Whistleblower to Be Supervised
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) decided Tuesday that a whistleblower who spilled Israel's nuclear secrets will not be re-arrested after his release from prison but will be kept under supervision, a government statement said.
Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for espionage after giving dozens of pictures and a description of what he said were nuclear weapons from Israel's top-secret Dimona reactor to London's Sunday Times in 1986. He is due to be released in April.
Israeli officials are concerned that Vanunu could disclose further secrets after his release, and some have been looking at ways to silence him. Proposals include keeping him under administrative detention, barring him from traveling overseas and preventing him from appearing in public.
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Sharon: Whistleblower to Be Supervised