Read the full article Sophie Hebden in SciDev.Net, 27 September 2006.
A terrible example of the legal system ignoring scientific evidence! Do something to protest! Write a letter to the Government of Libya. Post a protest on your blog. Comment on this blog in support of these nurses. Do something.
"The defence lawyers for six health workers who face execution in Libya are urging the international scientific community to campaign for the use of scientific evidence in their trial.
The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor are accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV while they were working at the al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi in 1998.
All six were sentenced to death in May 2004, but Libya's Supreme Court overturned their conviction in December 2005.
During their initial trial, the Libyan government requested an evaluation of the scientific evidence by two leading HIV researchers: Luc Montagnier from France, who shares the credit for identifying the virus, and Vittorio Colizzi from Italy.
The researchers analysed virus samples from the children and concluded that many had been infected long before the health workers arrived in Libya."
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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