The Guardian Newspaper features an op-ed calling on Tony Blair to work to free newly-arrested ‘nuclear whistle-blower’ Mordechai Vanunu. The article notes that "Amnesty International has made him a prisoner of conscience." Vanunu was jailed for 6 months last Monday after violating his parole agreement by speaking to foreigners and visiting Bethlehem (according to the article).

NGO Monitor has previously reported on Amnesty International’s troubling designation of Vanunu as a ‘prisoner of conscience,’ and their misleading use of the term “whistle-blower’ to describe his activities. The term "whistleblower" reveals illegal behavior by an organization, while Vannunu violated Israeli law and endangered national security.

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