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Published online 20 June 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070618-12
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Supreme Court hearing starts for medics facing death penalty
Last legal step begins for health workers appealing Libyan verdict.
The long-running case of six foreign health professionals sentenced to death in Libya enters its final legal phase today, with the first hearing of their appeal by the country's Supreme Court in Tripoli.
The international community has rallied around the six, who were controversially found guilty of intentionally infecting children with HIV.
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