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Israeli spy set free from US jail

REUTERS
Published : Nov 21, 2015, 6:37 am IST
Updated : Nov 21, 2015, 6:37 am IST

Lawyers for Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, released on Friday after 30 years in a US prison, said the conditions of his parole are unreasonable and illegal and should be vacated by a federal court.

Lawyers for Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, released on Friday after 30 years in a US prison, said the conditions of his parole are unreasonable and illegal and should be vacated by a federal court.

The former US Navy analyst left a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, early Friday morning, said Edmond Ross, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

According to Mr Pollard’s lawyers, he will be required to wear an electronic bracelet so his movements can be monitored at all times. Also, his computers and those of any employer who hires him will be subjected to “unfettered monitoring and inspection.”

The lawyers called the conditions “onerous and oppressive” in a statement announcing their legal challenge in a federal court in New York on Friday.

“There is no basis whatsoever to treat Mr Pollard in that manner, and doing so is vindictive and cruel, as well as unlawful,” lawyers Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman said.

His lawyers filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court in New York against the US Parole Commission and the US Probation Office for the southern district of New York. The petition claims that “unlawful parole conditions were imposed by the Parole Commission.”

Location: Israel, Jerusalem