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Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
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How to Lose a War
The Spokesman, 90
Vanunu Reports
Mordechai
Vanunu, who blew the whistle on the Israeli nuclear weapons programme, has
been harassed by the Israeli authorities ever since his release from prison in
2004. He sent this account of a day in court in March 2006.
‘Today,
the trial continued at 13:00, in the same court in Jerusalem. Mr Feldman could
not come to the hearing so Michael Sfard was my lawyer. Few supporters were
with me in the court. Jerry Levin was there plus three people from Norway and
one from Belgium. No press or any media people. The judge was Mr Yoel Zur, who
already this week gave a decision that the court will not accept all the
evidence from the Internet and from ‘Internet Chats’ taken without any
authority from my computer by the police.
Sfard
cross-examined the policeman Peterburg, who interrogated me months ago in the
police station. He especially asked about his methods of going through my
computers to see my e-mails and chats, and going to court to ask for my
arrest, and permission to search my room. Sfard proved to the court, according
to the police documents, that they asked Microsoft to give them details of my
Hotmail account, my passwords, and the internet protocol address. All this was
after the police went to the court, asking the judge for the right to go to my
e-mails.
Microsoft
obeyed these orders and gave them all the details, but not the passwords. This
took place on 12 August 2004, three months before arresting me and taking my
computers. Sfard pointed out that it is strange to ask Microsoft to give this
information before they have the court’s order to listen to my private
conversations. It means they wanted to go to my e-mails in secret or maybe
even help the secret services, Shaback and Mossad, but not as the police
stated, by Peterburg, that he went to my e-mail account and all his material
came only from my computer.
The
most important revelation was that the police each time went to the court
claiming that I was suspected of spying activity, not with just breaking my
restrictions. So Mr Sfard asked the police to tell the court what kind of
espionage I was involved in. The policeman did not have any answers and said
that he brought all the evidence to the court. When Sfard asked again about
any material related to the ‘espionage’ accusation, Peterburg had no
answers.
It
was also revealed that the state came to the court with two special secret
Government orders, which allowed the prosecution to keep documents related to
the court hearing secret. One was from the Minister of Internal Security and
one from the Minister of Defence. What is this about? We don’t know. One
thing is clear – the secret cooperation between the police and Shaback/Mossad.
So Sfard proved that the police had misled the judges with false accusations;
who then gave orders to arrest me, to search my room, to go to my e-mail,
confiscate my computers (for almost a year), and also mislead Microsoft to
believe they are helping in a case of espionage, otherwise Microsoft would not
have cooperated with such orders? All this case, interrogations, arrests,
confiscations of private properties and more, all done from the start under
the false and misleading statements to the courts of “suspicion of
espionage”, and yet they are not charging me with spy crimes.
The
judge also asked questions. He wanted to know what the police said to the
judges when they asked for all these orders, and how the proceedings had been
conducted. Peterburg, most of the time, said he did not remember. It looked
like he did not want to answer a lot of questions. The prosecutor wants the
court to have the tapes, where they video me in secret when I was interrogated
by the police in their offices. The court decided to give time until May 1st,
for each side to write their arguments for and against “No case to
answer”. Meanwhile, there will be other hearings between now and then.
That
was it for today. Please, anyone who could suggest prominent names who could
testify on the subject of freedom of expression and hopefully could come to
testify or write on the matter etc? Any ideas or help in this matter, my right
to freedom of speech, and that I have not committed any crimes, including
donations for legal expenses, would be very welcome. Thank You.’
ISBN 0 85124 724 5 - £5.00
