Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has Announced a review into his ministry's handling of the case of an Australian man who hanged himself Reportedly in an Israeli jail in 2010.
| Mr Carr I Told the ABC network was "troubled" by the case |
The report said there was evidence to suggest Mr Zygier worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency.
Israel has not officially commented on the ABC report.
Speculation about the identity of the prisoner, Whose existence was not officially Acknowledged, had been rife since the story broke more than two years ago.
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr ABC Told That I was troubled by the investigation's Findings.Continue reading the main storyAnalysisYolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem
Two years ago the Israeli news website YNet Reported That only an Israeli citizen was being held in Ayalon Prison, and Later That He Had Committed suicide.
But if you asked any Israeli journalists - even informally and off-the-record - What They knew of the case of "Prisoner X" They would get visibly uncomfortable.
Gag orders are rarely used in Israel Which likes to celebrate its democratic values like freedom of the press. However, When they are imposed, Particularly in cases of national security, They are taken very seriously.
In the end it was the international dimension of this story That Made it Difficult to keep secret. As ABC prepared to air its report in Australia, the newspaper Haaretz on how Israeli Reported half editors had been asked to Cooperate with the government and withhold information That was "embarrassing to A Certain government agency".
Yet there was nothing to stop Israelis from going online to find out the news from foreign media. Members of parliament here also asked the Difficult Questions That led to a partial lifting of the gag order.
Mr Carr Told the Programme Australian diplomats in Israel only knew of Mr Zygier's detention after his death. He said Mr Zygier's family had not made a complaint, in the Absence Of which there was little the Australian government could do.
However, the foreign ministry now says some Officials Were aware of his detention at the time,'Held incommunicado'
According To ABC's Foreign Correspondent Programme, Mr Zygier was from Melbourne and went by the name of Ben Alon in Israel.
The Programme said I had moved to Israel 10 years before his death. It Said That I died at the time I was 34 years old, married to an Israeli woman and had two children.
Mr Zygier was found hanged in a cell in late 2010, months after I was imprisoned, and his body flown to Melbourne for burial the Following week, ABC says.
When the story first emerged About Prisoner X, half said the unidentified Israeli man was being held incommunicado at high-security Ayalon prison in Ramle, central Israel.
ABC said I was incarcerated in a wing built to house Yigal Amir, the Israeli who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. It said his cell was Fitted with surveillance cameras designed to Prevent Such incidents as suicide.
The reason for his detention was not Disclosed and his identification was so secret even his guards That did not know who I was, the Programme said.
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