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'''Mordechai Vanunu''' ({{lang-he|מרדכי ואנונו}}; born 14 October 1954),<ref>{{cite Twitter|first=Mordechai|last=Vanunu|url=https://twitter.com/vanunumordechai/status/1231336978827882496|number=1231336978827882496|title=I officially changed my age, from 1954 to 1952, according to a document received from Morocco, I was born in 1952, not 1954|user=vanunumordechai|date=22 February 2020}}</ref> also known as '''John Crossman''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143995|title=Vanunu: Take my Citizenship|work=Arutz Sheva|date=8 May 2011 |access-date=15 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Displayarticle.asp?section=newsmakers&xfile=data/newsmakers/2004/April/newsmakers_April11.xml|title=Mordechai Vanunu|date=12 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512023849/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Displayarticle.asp?section=newsmakers&xfile=data%2Fnewsmakers%2F2004%2FApril%2Fnewsmakers_April11.xml|archive-date=12 May 2013|access-date=20 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> is an Israeli former [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]] technician and peace activist<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/12/germany.israel |title=Calls for Olmert to resign after nuclear gaffe |first1=Luke |last1=Harding |first2=Duncan |last2=Campbell |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=12 December 2006 |access-date=8 January 2016}}</ref> who, citing his opposition to [[weapons of mass destruction]], revealed details of [[Nuclear weapons and Israel|Israel's nuclear weapons program]] to the [[History of British newspapers|British press]] in 1986.<ref name=nyt2004>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/international/middleeast/21CND-NUCL.html?scp=1&sq=Vanunu%20drugged&st=cse|work=The New York Times|title=Israeli Who Revealed Nuclear Secrets Is Freed|first=Greg|last=Myre|date=21 April 2004|access-date=13 May 2010}}</ref> He was subsequently lured to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency [[Mossad]], where he was drugged and [[Kidnapping|abducted]].<ref name=nyt2004/> He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors.<ref name=nyt2004 />
Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement, though no such restriction is mentioned in Israel's penal code, nor imposed by his verdict. Released from prison in 2004, he was further subjected to a broad array of restrictions on his speech and his movement, and arrested several times for violations of his parole terms, giving interviews to foreign journalists and attempting to leave Israel. He claims to have suffered from "cruel and barbaric treatment" at the hands of prison authorities, and suggests that these would have been different if he had not converted to Christianity.<ref>{{cite news|title=Israeli nuclear spy released|url=https://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/21/israel.vanunu|work=CNN|date=21 April 2004|access-date=12 February 2009}}</ref>
In 2007, Vanunu was sentenced to six months in prison for violating terms of his parole. The sentence was considered unusually severe even by the prosecution, who expected a [[suspended sentence]]. In May 2010, Vanunu was arrested again and sentenced to three months in jail on a charge that he had met foreigners, in violation of conditions of his 2004 release from jail. In response, [[Amnesty International]] issued a press release in July 2007, stating that "The organization considers Mordechai Vanunu to be a [[prisoner of conscience]] and calls for his immediate and unconditional release."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGMDE150442007|title=Israel: Mordechai Vanunu sentence clear violation of human rights|publisher=[[Amnesty International]]|date=2 July 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710201838/http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGMDE150442007|archive-date=10 July 2007}}</ref>
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