"The verdicts will change nothing. we are innocent," the Palestinian doctor, Ashraf Alhajouj, told Reuters from behind the bars of the dock.
Libya: Death sentences for foreign medical must be withdrawn
Amnesty International condemned the decision of a Libyan court today to sentence to death five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor after convicting them of knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV in a hospital in Benghazi.
"We deplore these sentences and urge the Libyan authorities to declare immediately that they will never be carried out. The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and in this case it has been imposed after a grossly unfair trial", said Malcolm Smart, Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International.
"This is the second time that these six medical professionals have been sentenced to death by Libyan courts. In this trial, as in their earlier one, confessions which they have repeatedly alleged were extracted from them under torture were used as evidence against them, while defence lawyers were not allowed to bring in international expertise and the evidence produced by Libyan medical experts was questioned by international medical experts."
"Only a fair trial can bring out the truth and do justice to the children who have been infected with HIV and their parents."
The death sentence has to be reviewed by the Supreme Court and then approved by the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies. After that, the only possibility for the six medics is to receive a pardon. (MORE)
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE190072006
Libya: Rescind Death Penalty for Foreign Medical Workers
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/12/19/libya14908.htm
Libyan justice: medicine on death row
Michel Thieren
19 - 12 - 2006
The confirmation of Libya's decision to convict five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of infecting child patients with the HIV virus is a global medical disaster, says Michel Thieren.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-vision_reflections/libya_bulgaria_4200.jsp
PHR Condemns Conviction and Death Sentence of Doctor and Nurses in Libya
http://www.physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2006-12-19.html
Libya condemns nurses despite evidence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_re_af/libya_bulgaria_aids_trial_14
New scientific study takes aim at charges in Libya's AIDS trial
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061206/wl_mideast_afp/libyabulgariatrial_061206193301
Libya firm on HIV death sentences http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6194325.stm
Foreign Medics Sentenced in Libya HIV Case
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1165994038506&pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout
Libya court sentences foreign medics to death in second HIV infection trial
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/12/libya-court-sentences-foreign-medics.php
5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted, sentenced to death by Libyan court
http://ap.examiner.net/pstories/world/20061219/130580007.shtml
PROJECT IN LYBIE
The Defense of the Bulgarian nurses
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Favocats.france.free.fr%2Fprojet%2520libye.htm
HIV trial in Libya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_trial_in_Libya
Libya: Death sentences for foreign medical must be withdrawn
Amnesty International condemned the decision of a Libyan court today to sentence to death five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor after convicting them of knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV in a hospital in Benghazi.
"We deplore these sentences and urge the Libyan authorities to declare immediately that they will never be carried out. The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and in this case it has been imposed after a grossly unfair trial", said Malcolm Smart, Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International.
"This is the second time that these six medical professionals have been sentenced to death by Libyan courts. In this trial, as in their earlier one, confessions which they have repeatedly alleged were extracted from them under torture were used as evidence against them, while defence lawyers were not allowed to bring in international expertise and the evidence produced by Libyan medical experts was questioned by international medical experts."
"Only a fair trial can bring out the truth and do justice to the children who have been infected with HIV and their parents."
The death sentence has to be reviewed by the Supreme Court and then approved by the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies. After that, the only possibility for the six medics is to receive a pardon. (MORE)
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE190072006
Libya: Rescind Death Penalty for Foreign Medical Workers
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/12/19/libya14908.htm
Libyan justice: medicine on death row
Michel Thieren
19 - 12 - 2006
The confirmation of Libya's decision to convict five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of infecting child patients with the HIV virus is a global medical disaster, says Michel Thieren.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-vision_reflections/libya_bulgaria_4200.jsp
PHR Condemns Conviction and Death Sentence of Doctor and Nurses in Libya
http://www.physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2006-12-19.html
Libya condemns nurses despite evidence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_re_af/libya_bulgaria_aids_trial_14
New scientific study takes aim at charges in Libya's AIDS trial
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061206/wl_mideast_afp/libyabulgariatrial_061206193301
Libya firm on HIV death sentences http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6194325.stm
Foreign Medics Sentenced in Libya HIV Case
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1165994038506&pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout
Libya court sentences foreign medics to death in second HIV infection trial
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/12/libya-court-sentences-foreign-medics.php
5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted, sentenced to death by Libyan court
http://ap.examiner.net/pstories/world/20061219/130580007.shtml
PROJECT IN LYBIE
The Defense of the Bulgarian nurses
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Favocats.france.free.fr%2Fprojet%2520libye.htm
HIV trial in Libya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_trial_in_Libya