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| Gaddafi rejects release of medics |
| 2006-12-31 |
| Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has rejected calls for the release of six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting children with HIV/Aids. Those who committed crimes must accept the consequences, he said. Libya has been under increasing pressure because of international doubts over the fairness of the trial. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been tried and found guilty twice of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. Colonel Gaddafi stressed the "the independence of the Libyan judicial system", and he rejected what he called "Western intervention and pressure in this affair". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 perhaps a shutoff of all oil export/air travel/aid/food back to the good old times, asshole |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-12-31 18:41 |