On 19 December 2006, the Libyan court, a strongly "missing science" institution, did confirm its injustice by announcing death sentences for the five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor. "So scientists need to further speak out", a paraphrase from Richard Roberts, an Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, who hand-delivered a letter of protest signed by 114 Nobel laureates to the Libyan Mission to the United Nations in New York in late October, which was published in Nature on 9 November 2006.
Biomedical Reviews 2006; 17: vii.
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