Foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya trial

New Scientist | Dec. 19, 2006 (News Report)

The medics have been held since 1999, during which time 52 of the 426 infected children have died of AIDS. The nurses and doctor were previously sentenced to face a firing squad in May 2004, but Libya's Supreme Court ordered a retrial following an appeal in December 2005. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Autumn Carlson - Dec 19, 2006 - 9:21 AM PST
Reviewed by: Autumn Carlson (review), Hans Suter (review), Aldon Hynes (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Dec 19, 2006 - 10:48 AM PST

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Aldon Hynes
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 by Aldon Hynes - Oct. 1, 2008

This is an important story that would benefit from much more information and viewpoints.

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Hans Suter
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 by Hans Suter - Oct. 1, 2008

Family members of the dead children should have been interviewed, too. The reader is left without a human understanding of this apparently kafkaesque story.

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Autumn Carlson
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 by Autumn Carlson - Oct. 1, 2008
Autumn posted this story.
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