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	<title>Declan Butler,  reporter &#187; Libya</title>
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	<description>This is the personal blog of Declan Butler, a senior reporter at Nature. All views expressed here are mine, and not those of Nature. Contact me at d.butler@nature.com</description>
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		<title>The Freeing of the Tripoli Six: The inside story of how scientists saved medical workers from the firing squad.</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been blogging for a while; been taking some time out for other projects, and the blog had become almost entirely devoted to original posts on the Libya death penalty case, a hard act to follow. An article in the November issue of Discover magazine, now free online, provides an opportunity to close that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature calls for exoneration of medics in Libyan case</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=125</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost one year ago, Nature ran a blistering Editorial &#8212; &#8220;Libya&#8217;s Travesty&#8221; &#8212; on the tragic case of the HIV medics in Libya. Much water, and many articles in Nature have passed under the bridge since then, and tonight we publish perhaps our last Editorial on the case &#8212; &#8220;Free at last&#8221; &#8212; calling for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty, Justice, HIV and Libya</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=123</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Charkin, the chief executive officer of Macmillan Publishers, the parent company of Nature kindly invited me to write a guest post today for his blog, Charkin Blog. The guest post is here, but I thought I&#8217;d also post a copy here. Liberty, Justice, HIV and Libya The liberation of six foreign health workers, held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom!</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=122</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you will all have heard the good news that the six foreign health workers have finally been freed. I&#8217;ve written an update in Nature tonight &#8212; Libyan ordeal ends: medics freed. I&#8217;d like to thank the many hands, from the EU and British diplomats who worked patiently behind-the-scenes, to the many bloggers, scientists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Noon in Libya</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still waiting on a decision from the Supreme Council. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve written a long article in Nature, &#8220;High Noon in Libya,&#8221; available online tonight, tracing scientists efforts in the case]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Libya death penalty case</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve a brief update on the Libya case on Nature news online tonight â€“ see &#8216; Supreme Court hearing starts for medics facing death penalty &#8216; . It&#8217;s an update to one earlier this month in Nature &#8212; Diplomatic talks spur hope in Libya HIV case. We are now in the crucial final phase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Families of Bulgarian nurses meet France&#8217;s presidential candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The families of the Bulgarian nurses met today in Paris separately with SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy. Both candidates pledged to make resolution of the case a priority if elected, and to have it on the agenda at the next EU summit on 22 June. This high-level political support is a very important, and welcome, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send Senators Joseph Biden and Patrick Leahy an appeal on the Libya death penalty case</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=111</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physicians for Human Rights has launched a web page to send a message to the US administration on the need to resolve speedily the case of the medics facing the death penalty in Libya. You can access the sign on page here. Bloggers, please sign up, and forward this link to other bloggers/media. See PHR&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bianca Jagger to support medics in Libya</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bianca Jagger will arrive in Bulgaria tomorrow to lend support to the &#8220;You are not alone&#8221; campaign. George Michael will also hold a concert in May in Bulgaria to back the cause. The two join a list of celebrities moved by the double tragedy; the children infected with HIV, and these health professionals unfairly imprisoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte to visit Libya next week</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already posted on the public ambivalence of the US State Dept on the Libya death penalty trial &#8212; see post here. John Negroponte, the number 2 in the State Dept will visit Libya next week, the highest-ranking US official to visit Libya since the US and Libya resumed full diplomatic relations last May. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Justice in Libya? Let Scientific Evidence Prevail&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=108</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of a recent editorial in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, one of the top journals in this field. You can access the full article here. Concluding paragraph: How will this sad and deplorable episode end? Six foreign health care workers have now been jailed in Libya for âˆ¼8 years, reportedly tortured, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 major US medical groups call for release of hostages in Libya</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=107</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the run up to the Supreme Court hearing of the appeal of 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor in the death penalty trial in Libya &#8212; expected as soon as end month &#8212; there will be growing international activity. On 23 March, 10 major medical associations wrote to Colonel Mu&#8217;ammar al-Qadhafi arguing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya verdict follow-up in Nature</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=103</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lead story in the first issue of Nature in 2007 is an update on the Libya death penalty case &#8212; link here. It is accompanied by an Editorial &#8212; &#8220;Libya and human values.&#8221; Both should be on free access. A few excerpts from the Editorial: Libya has responded vigorously to the international community&#8217;s reassertion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas day and Libya death penalty case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted since the death penalty verdict last Tuesday, because I&#8217;m still analysing carefully all the different responses and positions. But it is Christmas Day, so I thought I&#8217;d post symbolically, just to point out it was on this very day last year that the six were cleared by the Supreme Court of Libya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya condemns Tripoli Six to death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, I am sure you all will have heard the grim news from Libya. I&#8217;ve written a short factual account here: Medics sentenced to death in Libya. I&#8217;ll blog more later, after taking stock. The six health professionals have 60 days to appeal to the Supreme Court &#8212; their ultimate chance to obtain justice.]]></description>
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		<title>Background information resources for Libya HIV case</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=99</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The verdict in the Libya HIV death penalty trial is expected to be announced tomorrow. Here are a few information resources that may be useful if you are blogging or writing about the trial. The Council of Europe has a good and succint factual account of the case and the human rights violations. This blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US State Department&#8217;s public face on  Libya HIV case</title>
		<link>http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=98</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean McCormack is the US State Department&#8217;s official spokesman. But he doesn&#8217;t seem to be very well-briefed on the death penalty trial in Libya of 5 Bulgarian nurses, and a Palestinian doctor, accused of injecting over 400 children with HIV, even though the verdict is expected next Tuesday. He was questioned on 6 December about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libyan scientist defends prosecution case in death penalty trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This link is to videos of a press conference held in Geneva last Friday, where the speakers defend the prosecution case in the Libya HIV trial. One speaker is Mohamed Daw, head of the Department of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, al-Fatah University. Daw was one of five independent Libyan experts, who authored of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading international medical bodies plead for charges to be dropped in Libya case after new scientific evidences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citing the new scientific evidence published in Nature this week, &#8220;the World Medical Association and the International Council of Nurses have sent a joint letter to the African Union, Amnesty International, the Libyan Government, the Council of Europe and Physicians for Human Rights drawing their attention to new scientific findings casting doubt on the evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New scientific evidence in Libya death penalty case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New molecular evidence, published online by Nature tonight &#8212; &#8220;Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak&#8221; &#8212; and supplementary info &#8212; see here &#8212; provides a firm alibi for the six medical workers facing the death penalty in Libya. They are charged with deliberately contaminating more than 400 children with HIV in 1998. [...]]]></description>
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