The Benghazi Six

There is outside intervention about the death sentence handed down for the six medical personnel by Libya’s Supereme Court where they are accused of contaminating 400 children with the HIV virus deliberately. The five nurses from Bulgaria and one doctor from Palestine have received a death sentence for the second time after the country’s Supreme Court squashed the verdict in 2005 and there was a new trial that handed down its verdict condemning them to death. Outside observers are claiming the cause of the infection is lack of proper hygiene at the Benghazi hospital where the incident took place. There was also report by the BBC that stated the contamination occurred before the arrival of the accused medical staff. Furthermore, there is an accusation that the reason why the nation is getting ahead with the death sentence is to extort Western countries for a lot of compensation money. According to reports it will take a while before the accused will be put to death since there is an appeal underway. However, the question always remains to be why they should not be handed over to their country of origin and if they are found guilty, then they will be sentenced according to the law of the countries they are from, because it is possible that they could be sabotaged.