U.K. Journalist Peter Hounam: Israel Should Be Ashamed for Arresting Me

Shin Bet: We had to detain Hounam to find out about nuclear information Mordechai Vanunu may have leaked; Hounam released Thursday.

Yossi Melman

Yuval Yoaz, Anat Balint Haaretz Service, Agencies

May 26, 2004

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Yossi Melman

Yuval Yoaz, Anat Balint Haaretz Service, Agencies

May 26, 2004

British journalist Peter Hounam said Thursday night Israel should be ashamed for arresting him, adding he had been held in a "dungeon with excrement on the walls."

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