Libyans Ready to Trade Bulgarians' Death for Life Jail
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Top news: 13 February 2005, Sunday. Libyan families of HIV-infected children voiced willingness to negotiate passing life-time sentences on the five Bulgarian nurses who are on the death row for allegedly ...
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Libya&#39;s top legal body meets on Monday to decide whether to confirm or annul death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the virus that causes AIDS.
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Bulgarian judicial officials meet Wednesday to seek the transfer from Libya of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison for infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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Officials in Sofia on Thursday lauded a Libyan vow to spare executions of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of causing an AIDS outbreak at a children's hospital, but reiterated Tripoli ...
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Libya's Supreme Court is to rule on the case of foreign medics on death row for infecting children with HIV.
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Six foreign medics jailed for life in Libya for infecting children with the AIDS virus flew to Bulgaria on Monday after being released by Tripoli under a deal brokered with the European Union.
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The death sentence of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV has been commuted to life in prison, a top Libyan official said Tuesday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell vowed Tuesday to continue pressing Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses it has sentenced to death for allegedly causing a death outbreak at a hospital.
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A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the virus that causes AIDS, provoking a chorus of Western condemnation.
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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could be re-examined.
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Relatives of the Bulgarian nurses given life sentences in Libya were waiting for them early Tuesday at Sofia airport hoping for their return, Bulgarian national radio reported.
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Libya may review death sentences imposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with HIV.
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Prosecutors in Ethiopia are seeking to raise a life imprisonment sentence for former Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to the death penalty after a genocide conviction for crimes during his bloody 17-year rule.
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Libya&#39;s supreme court said it would issue its final verdict next month on six foreign medics on death row for allegedly infecting children with AIDS, but an official involved in the case said an out-of-court settlement could be reached as early as this week.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian  doctor could face the firing squad if a Libyan court convicts  them on Tuesday on charges of deliberately infecting hundreds  of Libyan children with HIV.
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Politics: 3 October 2004, Sunday. The lawyers of the five Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya headed for Tripoli on Sunday to seek information about the way the case proceeds at the Supreme Court.