Sentenced to death in Libya

If you don't know about the case of the Palestinian and Bulgarian medical workers who are currently being held in Libya, take a look at these links. The new sentence came down today: the doctor and nurses will be facing a firing squad unless world pressure is put on Libya to back down. The medics have been sentenced for allegedly infecting children with HIV. As Nature Magazine's excellent coverage shows, the trial has completely ignored scientific evidence and has gone ahead on the basis of torture-extracted confessions and political maneuvering in order to obfuscate the sanitary conditions of the hospital from which the infections originate.