Foreign medics sentenced to die in Libya case
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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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"The indemnities are financed by international contributions in the form of debt remission"  Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.The six foreign medics have been sentenced to death in the case, and Libyan officials have said a settlement could pave the way for their release.Jailed since 1999, the six deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture. Experts and outside scientific reports have said the children were contaminated as a result of unhygienic conditions at a hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi. Fifty of the infected children died. Read more
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian  doctor, sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with  HIV, on Sunday pleaded not guilty to charges they defamed two  Libyans by accusing them of torture, lawyers said.
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The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday paid a visit to Bulgarian medics facing the death sentence in Libya after being convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, a Libyan official said.
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A Libyan court dismisses defamation charges against foreign medics already sentenced to die in another case.
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PARIS, Dec. 19 -- Six foreign health workers were condemned to death by a Libyan court on Tuesday on charges they deliberately infected more than 400 children with the HIV virus, in a lengthy case that has set back Libya's attempts to repair relations with the United States and Europe.
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Libya&#39;s Supreme Court will rule on July  11 on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for  infecting Libyan children with HIV, marking the final stage of  a trial that has affected Libya&#39;s ties with the West.
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Libya&#39;s Supreme Court will rule on  Wednesday on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death  for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus  following a report of a deal for their release.
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Six foreign medics sentenced to death for spreading HIV in Libya, deny making false torture claims.
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Libya's Supreme Court will rule on July 11 on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV, marking the final stage of a trial that has affected Libya's ties with the West.
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Libya's Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday death sentences on six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV, but the judgment could clear the way for the government to free them.
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Libya said on Wednesday the ball is in Europe&#39;s court over the fate of six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence for infecting children with the AIDS virus but who are still anxiously waiting to return home after eight years behind bars.
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Libyan officials warned that European pressure was not helping the cause of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in an AIDS epidemic case.
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A court convicted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor Tuesday of deliberately infecting 400 children with HIV and sentenced them to death, despite scientific evidence the youngsters had the virus before the medical workers came to Libya.
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Lawyers for six foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV appeal their convictions.
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A timeline of events in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the virus that causes AIDS.
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Libya's Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus following a report of a deal for their release.