In a report named HIV Injustice in Libya — Scapegoating Foreign Medical Professionals, The New England Journal of Medicine said that science was not respected in Libyan court, which failed taking convincing evidence under consideration.

On December 19 2006, the court in Tripoli is supposed to give the final verdicts in the trial of five Bulgarian nurses charged with intentional HIV infection in Libya. The nurses were previously sentenced to death but Libya's Supreme Court ordered re-trial.

Virologist Vittorio Colizzi said that the evidence used against the medics "is so irrational it is unbelievable." Court refused examining reports of Western scientists and considered only the analysis of Libyan medics.

Western virologist used DNA analysis to show that the infection occurred before the Bulgarians started work in the Libyan town of Benghazi.

"Science has not been respected in this court; without the scientific evidence, there is no way there could be a fair trial," Nobel Prize in physiology winner Richard Roberts said.

New England Journal of Medicine reported that the nurses were “simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.”