Guardian Op-ed: Blair must work to help Vanunu, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience
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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Related Articles:
- Amnesty and Human Rights Issues in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, NGO Monitor Digest (Vol. 1 No. 4); February 27, 2003
- US State Department Report on Human Rights relies on politicized NGOs, NGO Monitor, March 7th, 2007