 Many Israelis regard Mr Vanunu (left) as a traitor to their country |
Israeli police have arrested Mordechai Vanunu, a technician who spent 18 years in prison for revealing details of Israel's clandestine nuclear programme.
He is being held on suspicion that he met foreigners, violating conditions of his 2004 release from jail, police say.
Mr Vanunu is due to appear in a court in Jerusalem later on Tuesday.
From the data Mr Vanunu leaked to a UK newspaper in 1986, experts concluded that Israel had nuclear arms. Israel neither confirms nor denies this.
After his release from prison in 2004, the Israeli authorities banned Mr Vanunu from speaking to foreign media and travelling abroad, claiming he could divulge more classified information about Israel's Dimona nuclear plant, where he had worked before the arrest.
Mr Vanunu - an anti-nuclear campaigner - has rejected the claim, saying he only wants to be free to leave Israel.
In 2007, Mr Vanunu, a Jewish convert to Christianity, was sentenced to six months in prison for breaking the conditions of his parole.
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