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Published online 25 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061023-10
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Scientists suffer human-rights abuses
Around the world, researchers are being harassed, imprisoned and murdered.
Six medical workers are on trial in Libya, facing the death penalty for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, despite the fact that international experts say there is no evidence of their guilt (see 'A shocking lack of evidence.
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