Invitation To Vanunu
EDM number 1021 in 2003-04, proposed by Christine Russell on 21/04/2004.
That this House would like to invite Mordechai Vanunu, the former Israeli nuclear scientist turned whistleblower, to address honourable Members and explain the circumstances surrounding his kidnapping following the revelation in a British newspaper in 1986; welcomes his release on 21st April after nearly 18 years of imprisonment in Israel, 11 of which were spent in solitary confinement; notes that the Israeli Government intends to ban him from travelling abroad and from talking to foreign nationals and media following his release; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to make all necessary representations to the Israeli Government to allow this visit.
This motion has been signed by a total of 80 MPs.
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