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【社会人文】利比亚的医学法制闹剧
A Medical-Legal Travesty in Libya
Published: October 14, 2006
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor are facing the death penalty in Libya based on preposterous charges that they deliberately infected hundreds of children with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. This looming miscarriage of justice demands a strong warning to the Libyan leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, that his efforts to join the ranks of peaceable nations will suffer if the medical workers are made the scapegoats for the failure of Libya’s own health system.
The doctor and nurses, who had been working at a hospital in Benghazi, were arrested in 1999. They confessed under torture, according to human rights organizations, but later protested their innocence. The charges that they deliberately infected more than 400 children were clearly bogus.
One of the world’s greatest experts on H.I.V., Dr. Luc Montagnier, testified that the real cause of the infections was poor hygienic practices at the hospital. The infections emerged before the accused started working at the hospital and continued to spread after they were thrown in jail.
It seems clear that the government wanted to deflect public outrage by accusing foreigners of committing a horrific crime — rather than acknowledging the negligence of Libya’s health system.
The six medical workers were convicted and sentenced to death in 2004, while nine Libyans who worked at the same hospital were acquitted. The convictions were overturned by the Libyan Supreme Court, which ordered a retrial. Defense attorneys fear the same outcome this time. The attorneys are calling for another independent scientific assessment of the case because the evidence offered by Dr. Montagnier and an Italian scientist was tossed out by the courts.
Thus far the United States and European nations have focused on setting up an international fund to care for victims of the tragedy and to upgrade equipment at the hospital — in hopes that will be enough to get the medical workers set free. Libya is demanding substantial compensation as well, analogous to what it paid to families of the victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
That seems a grotesque overreach given that the nurses and doctors are the victims here. The White House holds Libya up as a model for other nations to follow in renouncing weapons of mass destruction. Libya must also be judged by how it respects human rights and the rule of law. 认领！
谢谢哈！ 利比亚的医学法制闹剧
2006年10月14日发布
在利比亚，五名保加利亚护士和一名巴勒斯坦医生被控告故意使几百名儿童感染了人类免疫缺陷病毒（艾滋病毒），基于这一荒谬指控，六个人面临着死刑。作为利比亚的领导人，Muammar el-Qaddafi致力于打造一个和平安宁的国度，如果这几位医务工作者由于利比亚的卫生体系不健全而成为替罪羊的话，他这一努力势必会受到重创。步步临近的审判不公事件给Muammar el-Qaddafi敲响了警钟。
曾在Benghazi某医院工作的这些医生及护士是在1999年被逮捕的。根据***组织所说，他们在严刑拷问之下供认不讳，而后又宣称他们本是无辜的。说他们故意使400多名儿童感染的指控，明显是伪造的。
全球顶尖级人类免疫缺陷病毒专家 Luc Montagnier博士证实，引发感染的真正原因在于该医院恶劣的卫生条件。早在被告去医院工作之前，就已经出现感染了，在他们入狱之后，感染还将继续。
显而易见，政府希望通过归罪于是外国人的残忍犯罪行为 而非利比亚的卫生体系漏洞 而转移公众的义愤情绪。
这六名医护人员被控有罪并于2004年判处死刑，而在同一家医院工作的九名利比亚人却没有任何责任！利比亚最高法院要求对此进行复审并翻倒了原判。这次，辩护律师害怕重蹈覆辙，他要为这一事件寻找另一个独立的科学证明，因为法院不理睬Montagnier博士及一个意大利科学家提供的证据。
至此，美国及欧洲国家聚焦发起了一项国际基金用以救治事件中的受害者及提升该医院的设备水平——希望这样足以释放那些医务工作者。利比亚也提出了实质性赔偿要求，这类似于在1988年的泛美航空公司103号机上遇难的家属所受到的赔偿。
这里是医生护士们成了受害者，真是荒谬啊。白宫赞赏利比亚不参与大规模杀伤性武器，说是为其他国家树立了榜样；那对于他是如何尊重***的，如何尊重法律的是不是也该有个说法呢？
嘿嘿 本人水平低呀，快来纠错哈！ “***“两个字 敲不上去呀 [标签:content1][标签:content2]
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作者:admin@医学,生命科学 2011-09-02 17:15
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