It is hard to know which is more tragic. Is Ait worse that a hospital should infect hundreds of children with AIDS and that scores of them should die from the incurable disease? Or that some of its staff should be accused of their murder and sentenced to death by firing squad? This is not the only moral dilemma that a Libyan judge now faces in the final appeal of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been held for seven years on this sickening charge. He must also determine what kind of a country Libya is. Is it a place where justice is impartial and seeks the truth? Or does it remain a country where ignorance, prejudice and pressure to shield powerful people from blame trump glaring scientific evidence?
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