Israeli nuclear whistle-blower under house arrest

September 10, 2015 22:40

An Israeli court put nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu under seven days' house arrest today for giving a TV interview more than a decade after completing an 18-year jail term, media said.

Army radio said he was arrested in the morning after an interview on privately owned Channel 2 last week in defiance of the terms of his 2004 release.

He later appeared in a Jerusalem court and was confined to his home for a week and barred from using the Internet, the radio said.

Court officials could not be reached for confirmation.

The former nuclear technician was jailed in 1986 for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.

He spent more than 10 years of his sentence in solitary confinement.

In Friday's interview, the content of which Channel 2 said was cleared for broadcast by the military censor, he said he longer has any secrets to spill and just wants to join his new bride in Norway.

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