JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli prison officials have punished Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin for giving his first interviews to the news media since his 1995 murder of Israel’s prime minister.

A Prisons Authority statement Friday says Yigal Amir has been moved to solitary confinement in a different prison. He has been forbidden from using the telephone, receiving visitors or holding conjugal visits with his wife.

Amir gave telephone interviews to two Israeli TV stations under the guise of a conversation with his wife from his cell. He discussed his decision to kill Rabin because of Rabin’s move to cede territory to the Palestinians.

Israeli lawmakers criticized the TV stations Friday, saying they should not give Amir exposure. One channel backed down, while the second says it still plans to run the interview this evening.