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The parliamentary wing of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a pan-European security body, urged Libya not to execute six foreign medical workers convicted of infecting children with AIDS

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The parliamentary wing of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a pan-European security body, urged Libya not to execute six foreign medical workers convicted of infecting children with AIDS.
A resolution before OSCE parliamentarians said confessions had been extracted from the accused under torture by Libyan police and security services, and that two of the interrogators had admitted that duress had been applied.
Bruce George, president of the parliamentary assembly of the 55-member OSCE, said most people were convinced that the six -- five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor -- were wrongly convicted.
"I really hope that Colonel (Moamer) Kadhafi, the great leader, will step in and prevent the executions because most people including the medical profession say they are not guilty," he said in Scotland's capital Edinburgh.
The six accused had been charged with premeditated murder and intentional infection of nearly 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus through blood transfusion.
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  • (Sources: Agence France Presse, 05/07/2004)