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Mordechai Vanunu
JERUSALEM: Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on Sunday petitioned Israeli High Court to overturn a decision to extend restrictions on him by a year, a media report said. Mr. Vanunu, released last year after serving 18 years in prison on charges of treason for revealing state secrets, faces severe restrictions including a ban on communicating with foreigners and travelling outside Jerusalem. The whistleblower's lawyers, Michael Sefarad and Avigdor Feledman, claim that the decision to extend restrictions on him amounts to sentencing him to another year of isolation, Ynetnews reported. Interior Minister Ofir Pines-Paz last April extended the restrictions on Mr. Vanunu imposed after his release saying that he is still in possession of nuclear secrets that endangers national security. ``The fact that Vanunu systematically violated injunctions placed on him, obligates me to conclude that this pattern of behavior will be repeated,'' he said. ``It would therefore be irresponsible to allow Vanunu leave the country,'' Mr. Pines-Paz wrote to Mr. Feldman in a letter, the report said. The Interior Minister also had asserted that the restrictions placed on Mr. Vanunu were not motivated by a wish to punish him further. The former technician at the Dimona nuclear research centre, who revealed secrets of Israel's nuclear programme to the Sunday Times, however has maintained that he has made open everything he knew and has nothing left to reveal. — PTI
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