The terminally-ill Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been moved into the emergency room of a hospital in Tripoli, a Libyan official source told Reuters on Wednesday.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland last month on the grounds that he has prostate cancer and does not have long to live. The United States, and opposition parties in Britain, have criticized the decision to release him.
There were no further details on Megrahi's condition. A spokesman for Tripoli Medical Center, the hospital in the Libyan capital where Megrahi has been undergoing treatment for several days, said the patient was too ill to speak to reporters.
"Because of the treatment he is receiving, his immune system is very weak and he cannot speak to anyone today," said Omar Senoussi, head of media relations at the hospital.
Megrahi was the only person convicted over the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, in which 270 people were killed. He received a rapturous welcome when he arrived home in Libya last month.
The British government has also been accused by domestic opponents of backing Megrahi's release in a drive to improve ties with Libya, where British firms are seeking greater access to the North African state's oil and gas reserves.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday rejected the allegations, saying the decision to release the Libyan was made by Scotland's devolved government with no pressure applied from London.
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