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Published online 1 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061030-8

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Libya HIV trial conclusion delayed

Prosecution asks for extra session in death-penalty trial.

The death-penalty trial of six foreign medical workers in Libya, which was scheduled to end yesterday, 31 October, has been extended until this weekend at the earliest.

The medics are accused of deliberately injecting 426 children with HIV at the Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi in 1998.

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