Healthy Skepticism Library item: 12397

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Publication type: news

Nigeria Judge Grants Bail to Pfizer Defendant
Therapeutics Daily 2008 Jan 11
http://www.therapeuticsdaily.com/news/article.cfm?contentValue=1676001&contentType=sentryarticle&channelID=33

Abstract:

A judge granted bail Friday to a defendant in Nigeria’s court battle against Pfizer over decade-old drug tests, alleged by the government to have killed and crippled young subjects.

The man, Segun Donguro, was arrested after a warrant was issued Dec. 24 seeking his detention for failing to appear in court. The case is a $2 billion suit against the company for its drug trial in Nigeria in 1996. Two other Pfizer employees were also named in the warrant, but have not been arrested.

On Friday, a judge said Donguro, who helped administer the 1996 tests of a …