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United Press International - December 19, 2006
Reacting to the Libyan court's ruling that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were guilty of deliberately infecting 426 children with HIV, Amnesty International in London called for the sentences to be dropped.
"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 Program Director at Amnesty International.
Recalling this was the second time the six were given death sentences by Libyan courts, Amnesty International claimed confessions were extracted from the defendants under torture and defense lawyers were prevented from bringing international experts to offer their opinion.
Poor hygiene and multiple use of syringes are likely to be main causes for an HIV virus outbreak that resulted in AIDS cases in a Benghazi hospital, medical experts said.
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