on the one hand, what happened to ben zygier is unique.not that many austrian-israelis died in prison, that is true. but the facilitation by the establishment in the australian intelligence services of young jews here israel to live -- [indiscernible] it does not get talked about. the press does not examine it that often, but it is not unusual. because the heart in some ways what it is all about, which is to facilitate and blindly support israeli security. >> we're going to cut you off for one minute because dan yakir has just joined us. because the israeli supreme court decision has just come down, we don't want to listen. he is the chief legal counsel for the association for civil rights in israel. dan, can you speak to us about what the supreme court has just decided and what information you are going to be releasing now? >> only in regard to the proceedings, we initiated than two years ago, and heard for the first time about prisoner x in june 2010, six months before his death. we addressed the attorney general raising our concern abou

ben zygier, ben allen, and while in israel, ben alon. he moved to israel in 2000 and had an israeli family and lived in tel aviv. the report says there's evidence to suggest you work for israel's spy agency mossad. for reasons still not clear, he ended up in prison in solitary confinement, in a cell built to hold the man who assassinated israel's prime minister rabin. it was supposed to be a suicide- proof cell. he was found hanged in december 2010. his body was flown home to melbourne. >> we have expiration already out. information being held from the israeli public. >> after initially saying that he knew nothing about the case, australia posted foreign minister now says his government was told that an australian was detained by israel in 2010 for national security. >> the australian government saw assurances from israel that the individual's legal rights would be respected, he had legal representation of his own choosing, and the individual family members would be notified of his arrest and detention, and he was not being mistreated. >

the agency said x was actually ben zygier, we have not been able to independently confirm the informationver we able to talk to an australian investigative reporter who had been in contact with zygier over the years. turns out, he was tipped off that told him that zygier was in a passport scam. >> i was tipped off in 2009 by an australian source, he passed on australian citizens, also israeli citizens, and he suggested to me that they had been involved in a passport scam. a means to change their dent 2is in australia and use the new travel documents that they obtained to go and travel to countries that were sensitive for israel. >> reporter: zygier allegedly killed himself inside the cell by hanging himself. but questions have surfaced as to how he managed to do that inside a highly monitored and secured cell. a human rights attorney who we spoke with said that he actually had a conversation with zygier a couple days before he died. he told that you say the cell was supposedly suicide-proof. and that zygier had not been convicted. only suspected of a crime at the time. now, here's where t