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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: April 30, 2006 |
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Israeli nuclear whistleblower and peace activist Mordechai Vanunu has accepted an invitation to attend a literary festival in Norway, but his participation was uncertain due to a travel ban imposed on him by Israel, organizers said Friday.
Vanunu, whose travel restrictions were recently extended by 12 months, was invited to speak about human rights at the Aug. 30-Sept. 3 Bjoernsoen festival of international literature in the coastal city of Molde, festival spokeswoman Hege Newth Nouri said.
She said Vanunu had accepted the invitation, and that organizers have asked the Norwegian government to press Israel to lift his travel ban.
The ban was imposed in 2004 when Vanunu was released from prison after serving an 18-year term for treason for spilling Israel's alleged nuclear secrets in a 1986 interview with a British newspaper.
American writer Annie Proulx, author of the short story behind the Hollywood film "Brokeback Mountain," also accepted an invitation to the annual festival, which owes its name to Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Bjoernstjerne Bjoernsoen. |
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