Mittwoch, Dezember 20, 2006

Libya: Rescind Death Penalty for Foreign Medical Workers - Human Rights Watch

(New York, December 19, 2006) – The death sentences announced today by a lower court in Tripoli against six foreign medical workers for purposely infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV is a gross miscarriage of justice, Human Rights Watch said today. more....

Libya HIV death penalties condemned

-aljazeera.net-
The European Union has criticised a ruling by a Libyan court sentencing to death five nurses and a doctor for infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus at a hospital.
Johannes Laitenberger, an EU spokesman, said they had yet not decided whether to take steps against Libya, but said he "did not rule anything out" more....