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Headlines : InternationalDeath sentence upheld for medics in Libya
In 1999, five nurses and one doctor working in Libya were charged with purposely injecting 426 Libyan children with the HIV virus.
In 2006, they were convicted and sentenced to death.
Now, after countless hours of negotiations with a Libyan charity run by Muammar el’Qaddafi’s son (for compensation to the children’s parents), it appears their death sentences will be upheld.
Cited as a huge miscarriage of justice, many suggest the likelihood of 6 medical professionals conspiring to kill hundreds of children is much less, than the more obvious explanation: endemic negligence and poor hygienic practices.
[Posted By antiguanoctane]Republished from Times Online
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who today lost their appeal against a death sentence handed down for infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV may still be saved by a deal being negotiated behind the scenes.
Earlier this morning Libya’s Supreme Court ruled against the six, who maintain that they were forced to confess under duress for the tragedy at a hospital in the Mediterranean city of Benghazi. Fifty-six of the children have since died.
But EU leaders said they were still hopeful a solution could be found to free them and Libya’s foreign minister said the sentences will go to the High Judicial Council on Monday when the decision will be reviewed.
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Posted by gaanjah_mama on Thursday, December 21st 2006
Cannot dodge the rule of law…great news.
If we had any faith that this was a legally unbiased and valid judgment, and that the Bulgarians were anything but scapegoats and bargaining chips, then I might agree. As it stands, I have no faith that the rule of law has anything to do with this, and I cannot find in myself the callousness to call a sentence of execution “great news” even if they are indeed guilty.
surely you’ve heard of sarcasm.
think im not getting sick in libya
kill the front line health care workers
that will solve the problem ( see antiguoanoctanes comment)
As it stands, I have no faith that the rule of law has anything to do with this, and I cannot find in myself the callousness to call a sentence of execution “great news” even if they are indeed guilty.
Even if it prevents another 426 babies being infected with AIDS?