THE day of judgement has finally been set for six Bulgarian health workers accused of deliberately infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV. They will hear their fate by 19 December, a Libyan court ruled last week.
Human rights observers say the workers, who all face the death penalty, have been made scapegoats to cover up the real cause of the infections – poor hygiene at the Benghazi hospital where the children were treated in 1998. Fifty-two have since died.
“The Libyan courts have disallowed crucial scientific and circumstantial evidence”
Libyan president Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi is now under intense international pressure to…
