European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes world sunday february 7,1993 Jehovah s witness Dies after refusing transfusion London up doctors had to watch a Young woman bleed to death because her religious beliefs barred a lifesaving blood transfusion a Hospital spokes Man said Friday. Yvonne Leighton 28, a Jehovah s witness from the Washington District in Tyne and Wear a county in Northeast England died last week after suffering a he Merrhage during an operation at Sunderland general Hospital following the birth of her second child. The routine operation known As dilation and Curre Tage involves scraping the womb lining and is common after the birth of a child to remove placental debris. Hospital sources said the woman and her husband Gordon had signed forms before the operation Refus ing permission for blood transfusions. The Hospital spokesman said the woman bled to death Over several hours As her husband and other relatives waited by her bedside. He said that besides the immediate family a Large team from the Jehovah s witnesses including Legal representatives was at the Hospital to ensure the trans fusion did not go ahead. In similar cases with children it is much easier we get a lawyer to make them a Ward of the court to Clear our Legal responsibilities so the transfusion can go ahead but in this Case the patient was alive and communicating and the staff were powerless to do any thing he said. A charge of criminal assault could have been brought against the medical team if they had forced her to undergo the transfusion the spokesman said. Jehovah s witnesses strictly follow Laws Laid Down in the Bible that instruct people not to take any form of human or animal blood into their systems. Open up and say aah British dentist Peter Kortesz works Friday on a filling in ton 24-foot killer whale was suffering from an abscess in the Mouth of Zanouk a 10-year-old killer whale at the one of its 45 canines. The operation was a Success and Marine land zoo in antics on the French Riviera. The 3 Zanouk can go on eating a daily j54-Pound ration Offish. Saudi woman granted Refuge Canadian decision seen As boost to women s rights Toronto a a Young saudi woman who re fused to Wear a Muslim veil in her Homeland has won refugee status in Canada in what some Sec As a Small Victory for women. Immigration minister Bernard Vul court intervened last week in the Case of the woman known Only As Nada allowing her to apply for permanent residency in Canada. Nada who is in her 20s, had been in hiding since september 199j, when the immigration and refugee Board rejected her claim to refugee status. She said that because she was female she was unable to work study or dress us she pleased in saudi Arabia. She was subjected to violence on numerous occasions simply because she walked Down the Street alone with out covering her face. Some muslims say their religion demands such restrictions on women. The immigration and refugee Board in rejecting her claim counselled that she like All her compatriots would do Well to comply with the Laws of general application she criticizes and under Ull Valcourt s decision to overrule the Board in Nada s Case was a reversal of his earlier stand. Previously he had said that Canada should not impose its values on other countries and that recognizing such cases would result in an influx of female refugees. Valcourt s decision does not represent a major policy change. But he said the immigration Board soon would release new guidelines that note that although persecution of women is not specifically mentioned in the cur rent Law the statue May properly be interpreted As providing Protection to women who demonstrate a Well founded fear of gender related essentially the instruments to Deal with the gender question Are already there said William Vanstaalduin Nen director general of refugee affairs for the ministry of employment and immigration. Valcourt did mention that there would be some sort of a policy change and we certainly intend to push him said Marie Louise Cote the Montreal lawyer who represented Nada. The guidelines she said arc better than nothing. They Are an Advance if you consider they did not exist before Cote said. List guidelines Are not bind ing. You cannot Force Board members to Render a Deci Sion in any Nada who Hopes eventually to change her name and Start a new life As a Canadian citizen declined to be interviewed. She had the Strong backing of Canada s International Center for human rights and democratic development. Other women s groups also have stepped in. Kohl reportedly to visit Clinton in Washington from wire reports Bonn Germany a television station on Friday quoted Chancellor Helmut Kohl As saying he plans to meet with president Clinton in washingtond.c., next month. Kohl made the announcement in an interview with the sat 1 television network. A press release from sat 1 said Kohl plans to travel to Washington in March but it did not specify the Date. Bhutto s mate out on bail Karachi Pakistan a special terrorist court granted bail saturday to Asif a Sardari the husband of former prime minister Binazir Bhutto. The judge approved a request by Sardari s lawyers to free him and set bail at $20,000. He is charged with kidnapping and extortion. Sardari did not attend the hearing which lasted less than five minutes. He has been hospitalized for Back problems. The 40-year-old Karachi businessman has asked the court to allow him to leave Pakistan and go to London where Bhutto is hospitalized. The former prime minister who gave birth to their third child wednesday is expected to undergo gallbladder surgery soon. A hearing on the request was set for today. Sardari has been jailed since sept. 10, 1990, a month after Bhutto s government was unceremoniously dismissed for alleged corruption and abuse of Power. Salmon to be destroyed Lerwick Shetland islands Salmon Farmers must destroy More than 600,000 fish tainted by Oil spilled from a disabled Tanker the Shetland Salmon Farmers association said Friday. The ruined fish represent 15 percent of the anticipated Harvest of 1991 Salmon farm stocks and arc Worth about $11.5 million spokesman Alistair Goodlad said. The Salmon Are from 11 farms within the 500 Square mile fishery exclusion zone declared by the government around South Mainland Island after the liberian registered Braer broke up in a storm in the Bay of que Dale on Jan. 5. His trial ruled out Versailles France a judicial panel says former Premier Laurent Fabius and two other sex ministers cannot be tried for their role in distributing tainted blood that infected hundreds of Haemophiliacs with the aids virus. The investigative commission of the High court of Justice a parliamentary tribunal ruled Friday that the charge against the ministers failure to assist persons in danger had passed its three year statute of limitations. Three other health officials were convicted in october for knowingly distributing blood contaminated with the aids virus to Haemophiliacs in 1985. Since then 1,200 Haemophiliacs have contracted the human immunodeficiency virus anymore than 300 have died. Fabius now Leader of the governing socialist party said he was unhappy with the ruling because he wanted to Clear himself of the charges. Opposition lawmakers and groups representing the Haemophiliacs denounced the ruling and called on parliament to find some Way to hold the three ministers accountable. Charged with Fabius were former social affairs minister Georgina Defoix and former Deputy health minister Edmond Herve. Swiss plot uncovered Bern Switzerland separatists in the Northern Swiss Region of Jura planned a wave of bombings but a failed attack set police on their Trail Las month Federal police say. Investigators after detaining three separatists for questioning found 48 pounds of explosives and 40 electric detonators at several hideouts in Jura the Sai Federal a lice Urs in Daeniker a m a a Daveni can said the investigation began after a nsrch0fajura.scparatist s our Christophe s Ami "i-7 w Len a Bombe lode accidentally m his car on a Bern Street. 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