EDINBURGH, Scotland — A Scottish court refused on Friday to release from prison a cancer-stricken Libyan man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people.
The court acknowledged that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi's cancer is incurable, but said he cannot be freed on bail pending an appeal of the case.
Al-Megrahi's lawyers argued that their client should be released because he recently was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and the disease has spread.
But the Court of Criminal Appeal rejected that argument.
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