Long walk to freedom; Mordechai Vanunu interview

[Englander]

Mordechai Vanunu served 18 years in an Israeli prison for blowing the whistle on the country's nuclear weapons programme. Last week he was arrested again - but not before he had given Duncan Campbell the following exclusive interview

Monday November 15, 2004
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1351324,00.html

It was precisely noon in Jerusalem and the bells in the tower of St George's Cathedral were echoing over the city. The short, trim man in the apricot shirt and dark trousers who was ringing them was smiling broadly. "Down there," he said, when he had given a final pull to the centre bell and was gazing from the turrets to the sprawling civic building below, "down there is where they sentenced me to 18 years in prison. This is my way of saying I am still here."

That was 10 days ago. Since then, Mordechai Vanunu, who emerged from his 18-year sentence for revealing that Israel had a nuclear weapons programme only seven months ago, has been re-arrested and accused of disclosing classified information and of breaching the restrictions that forbid him from associating with foreigners. This week, the Israeli attorney general will decide what action to take. For the time being, he is back under house arrest in a small room at the cathedral.