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Mordechai Vanunu was 'freed' from 18 years in jail on April 21, 2004, but Israel continues to deny him the RIGHT to leave the state.

He was sentenced for treason for telling the world Israel had manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads by 1986.

On the day of his release from jail he said:

"I am not harming Israel. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptised into Christianity. If I was a Jew I ... Full Story »

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by eileen fleming - Jul. 27, 2009

This is what citizen journalism is all about. “Many journalists come here to the American Colony, from CNN and NY Times. They all want to cover my story, but their EDITORS say no." -Mordechai Vanunu @ the American Colony March 26, 2006 to WAWA Reporter + Editor excerpted from http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=539&Itemid=156

“Many journalists come here to the American Colony, from CNN and NY Times. They all want to cover my story, but their EDITORS say no." -Mordechai Vanunu @ the American Colony March 26, 2006 to WAWA Reporter + Editor Vanunu's current trial fighting for the inalienable right to free speech and right to leave the state began in Jerusalem on January 25 2006 obfuscated by the Palestinian elections held on the same day and it has continues on to this very day. "CNN wants to interview me; but they say they can't do it because they don't want problems with the Israeli censor. BBC is doing the same thing. Sixty Minutes from the United States from the beginning they wanted to do a program, but because of the censor situation they decide not to do it. Also big media from Germany, France, Italy, Japan. None of them wants problems with the Israelis." [The Inside Looking Out: Report-69 by Jerry Levin. Mordechai: "Next Time I Won't Take A Taxi"/Hebron, West Bank, Palestine, February 27, 2006) As a member of the New Fourth Estate-an activist reporter- we do not take assignments from editors or paychecks from conglomerates-I have reported from Day One on Vanunu's Freedom of Speech Trial in the 'democracy' of Israel. Eileen Fleming, A Feature Correspondent for The Palestine Telegraph and Arabisto Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" "Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control.”-Jeff Halper, American Israeli, Founder and Coordinator of ICAHD/Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Noble Peace Prize Nominee for 2006.

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