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Carl Von Ossietzky

December 10, 2010 by · Comments Off on Carl Von Ossietzky 

Carl Von Ossietzky, In this letter, the signatories asked the two ministers to give Vanunu free start to allow him to participate in the act of ceremony for the presentation of the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal-December 12, 2010 in Berlin. Mordechai Vanunu is the recipient of the Medal Carl von Ossietzky 2010.

Let him receive the Carl-von-Ossietzky-2010 Medal personally to the ceremony on December 12 this year in Berlin.

To:
Mr. Prime Minister Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu
Honourable Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, M.
Minister of Defence Honourable Mr. Eli Yishai

We, the undersigned, use the grant of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal Mordechai Vanunu as an opportunity to appeal to you: please give this personality outside of your country, who have urged caution against dangers of nuclear weapons, leaving Israel free to enable participation in the act of ceremony for the presentation of the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal-December 12, 2010 in Berlin.

International public opinion learned about Mordechai Vanunu in 1985, just after passing information to the center of the Israeli Negev Nuclear Research in a London newspaper. On March 27, 1988, a first instance of the Israeli Penal Court sentenced him to imprisonment of 18 years long due to “supporting the enemy in time of war” and that “the collection and the delegation of secret information with intent to harm Israel’s security.” An appeal against the decision was rejected by the Supreme Court. What happened against the testimony of eyewitnesses – including Columbia and the United States of America, nuclear expert’s weapons – that knowledge of the conviction was not sufficient to constitute a security threat to Israel.

On April 24, 2004, Mordechai Vanunu was released after serving his full sentence – the latter 11 years imprisonment aggravated by isolation. The legal constraints that have been repeatedly extended include the strict prohibition to leave Israel and severely restrict freedom of movement and freedom of expression.

Recently, the constraints shown were approved by the Israeli Supreme Court on October 11th, 2010. The judges rejected the objection that knowledge defensor Mordechai Vanunu for Nuclear Research has become obsolete because of his dismissal in 1985 and subsequent imprisonment in length and therefore could not constitute a threat to the safety of Israel. To justify the continued prohibition of leaving the country, the verdict of 13 October 2010, states that permanently holds the secret knowledge and related security which it might actually be abroad.

We would recall that former Prime Minister of your country, Ehud Olmert, already recognized in 2006 during his visit to Germany that Israel possesses nuclear weapons.

Mordechai Vanunu highlights down to this day he would not harm Israel. Instead, he acted on a deep concern about the dangers of artificially and to build nuclear weapons plutonium rehashed – including threats to the Israeli population. This concern is shared by millions of people since the versions atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this context and in light of increasing tensions in the region, leading state have repeatedly ruled in favor of complete nuclear disarmament and proposed as a first step in this direction creation regional areas free of nuclear weapons without.

The reasons why the signatories to the occasion of the presentation of Carl von Ossietzky-medal-Mordechai Vanunu appeals to you this letter in excess of policy applications of peace. We can not think of any other case in a democratic state where, after the complete execution of a sentence – with 18 years imprisonment or a particularly high valued – the legal requirements have been imposed that give rise to such a reduction deep fundamental rights – in fact – these equality constraints gradual extension of the sentence. We believe it is essential that in a democratic constitutional state prison served must lead to full reinstatement of all civil and political rights of the condemned.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights codifies the art. 12 the fundamental right to be released by entering and exiting any country including own. Art. 14, paragraph 7 also states: “No person shall be liable to be prosecuted or punished for an offense which has already been convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country.”

We, the undersigned, strongly urge you to consider generously to our request and to respond to our desire to allow Mordechai Vanunu to leave Israel the right. Please grant Mordechai Vanunu the possibility of accepting the invitation of the International League of Human Rights in its host 10 to 17 December 2010 in Berlin, to personally attend the ceremony to act delivery of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal in 2010.

Thank you for your kind attention. We would be grateful for a quick response.

Sincerely,

Lawyer Otto Jäckel – Doctor International President for the Prevention of Nuclear War – Germany

Prof. Dr. Fanny-M. Reisin – President International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – Germany

Dr. med Claußen Angelika – President International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – Germany

First signatories: Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Nobel Laureate for Peace 1979, awarded the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal-1976, Hans-Peter Dürr, MD, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize 1987, Günter Grass, writer, sculptor, grafic artist painter, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, recipient of the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal-1967, Nina Hagen, singer, actress and songwriter, Fredrik S. Heffermehl, lawyer, author and peace activist, Harold (Harry) W. Kroto, a chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996, Felicia Langer, a lawyer and author, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, 1990 and Bruno KREISKER 1991, Volker Ludwig, playwright, intendant of the Berlin GRIPS Theatre, recipient of the Order of Merit by the federal government in Berlin in 2007 and the Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal-1994, Luisa Morgantini, former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Eberhard Richter, a psychoanalyst and social philosopher, who holds council member IPPNW, recipient of the Medal Urania 1993 and the Paracelsus Medal 2008, Jack Steinberger, physicist, Nobel Peace Laureate 1988, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, natural scientist, recipient of the German Environment 2008

Nobel Peace Prize

December 10, 2010 by · Comments Off on Nobel Peace Prize 

Nobel Peace Prize, Amid a bitter storm of controversy, the Serbian government decided at the last moment to send its representative to attend the Chinese dissident Liu Xiao Bo Nobel Peace ceremony in Oslo on Friday.
The government said in a statement Thursday night that he had asked the Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic attend the ceremony, following criticism from officials of the European Union and Serbia NGOs.

Jankovic said it was too late to organize a regular trip to Oslo, so the government has a special plane at his disposal.

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told B92 television in Belgrade on Wednesday to boycott the ceremony decision was made “in the best interest of the country,” not to offend the Chinese.

“China is a proven friend of Serbia and the most difficult moments, she gave us unconditional support,” said Jeremic. He was referring to the fact that, outside of Russia, China was the only permanent member of UN Security who opposed the independence of Kosovo, proclaimed by the Albanian majority in February 2008.

Jeremic said that the government has decided to boycott the ceremony after careful consideration, while Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said that it was a “tactic” to strengthen Serbia’s candidacy to the European Union.

Belgrade daily newspaper said President Boris Tadic was furious because Jeremic made the decision himself, without consulting the government or the president. He allegedly ordered Cvetkovic reverse the decision.

Harvard-educated Jeremic, 35, was handpicked by Tadic, Minister of Foreign Affairs, because he knew him as a brilliant student in high school where Tadic was his professor of psychology. But he was criticized by Western diplomats new to have encouraged a hard line against the independence of Kosovo, which has been recognized by the United States and 22 EU members.
Serbian media sites were flooded Friday with comments from readers criticizing the government’s incompetence. “If I were Chinese, I would immediately break relations with this country stupid,” said one commentator.
A reader said he was feeling sick to the disorientation of the government, while most readers called the reversal “tragicomic.” “Serbia is a vassal state, worse than any banana republic, there is no end to his humiliation,” said another commentator.

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

October 7, 2010 by · Comments Off on MARIO VARGAS LLOSA 

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa – author of some of the most famous literature in Latin America and a beloved figure in Miami, a city he often visited – won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday.

In an elegant and clear prose, Vargas Llosa recounts the machinations of power and the powerful in Latin America in the stories that readers engrossed in the most intimate details of the life of a character.

Whether writing about a dictator in Santo Domingo – “ goat”in his famous novel “ The Feast of chèvre”-or the mysterious woman who consumes the life of a man in “ The Bad Girl,”Vargas Llosa brilliantly captured the essence of the modern era and what drives people to their fate.

The writer, who passed this semester at Princeton University as the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Latin American studies program, learned of his award while in New York Thursday morning. He had to give a press conference in 13 hours Instituto Cervantes of the city, a center dedicated to promoting the Spanish language in the United States.

Vargas Llosa told Spain’s El Pais, where he is a columnist, that he felt “ great joie”quand it was called with the news. But first, he thought it might be a joke.

“ I thought I had been completely forgotten by the Academy,”Vargas Llosa told the TT news agency in Switzerland. “ I did not even know the award was granted this month.”

Many of his friends thought that Vargas Llosa had been snubbed for the award because of his quick denunciation of the regime of Fidel Castro in the 1970s, when most left intellectuals continued to support Castro, despite his imprisonment and the poet Heberto Padilla its censorship of the arts and literature in Cuba.

In 1990, Vargas Llosa’s presidential candidate in Peru – he lost against Alberto Fujimori – and brought his campaign to Miami, where he has been a favorite author of the Miami International Book Fair since its inception.

Peruvians disappointed by the approval “of Fujimori’s rule, he obtained Spanish citizenship and lived between homes in Madrid and London.

Nobel Prize Literature

October 7, 2010 by · Comments Off on Nobel Prize Literature 

Nobel Prize Literature, (AP) – The winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:

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_ 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru.

_ 2009: Herta Muller, Germany.

_ 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio France.

_ 2007: Doris Lessing, Britain.

_ 2006: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey.

_ 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain.

_ 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria.

_ 2003: J. Mr. Coetzee, South Africa.

_ 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary.

_ 2001: V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton.

_ 2000: GAO Xingjian, Chinese-born French.

_ 1999: Guenter Grass, Germany.

_ 1998: Jose Saramago, Portugal.

_ 1997: Dario For, Italy.

_ 1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland.

_ 1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland.

_ 1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan.

_ 1993: Toni Morrison, United States.

_ 1992: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia.

_ 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa.

_ 1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico.

_ 1989: Camilo Jose IT, Spain.

_ 1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt.

_ 1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American.

_ 1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria.

_ 1985: Claude Simon, France.

_ 1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia.

_ 1983: William Golding, Britain.

_ 1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia.

_ 1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born British.

_ 1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American.

_ 1979: Odysseus Elytis Greece.

_ 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American.

_ 1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spain.

_ 1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American.

_ 1975: Eugenio Montale, Italy.

_ 1974: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, Sweden.

_ 1973: Patrick White, British-born Australian.

_ 1972: Heinrich Boell, West Germany.

_ 1971: Pablo Neruda, Chile.

_ 1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia.

_ 1969: Samuel Beckett, Ireland.

_ 1968: Yasunari Kawabata, Japan.

_ 1967: Miguel A. Asturias, Guatemala.

_ 1966: Shmuel Y. Agnon, Polish-born Israeli, and Nelly Sachs, German-born Swede.

_ 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russia.

_ 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre, France (declined award).

_ 1963: Giorgos Seferis, Greek Turkish origin.

_ 1962: John Steinbeck, United States.

_ 1961: Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia.

_ 1960: Saint-John Perse, Guadeloupe-born French.

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