Libya families end execution bid
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Families of Libyan children infected with HIV drop demands for six foreign medics to be sentenced to death.
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Seif al-Islam el-Gaddafi, son of Libyaâs leader Muammar Gaddafi told the New York Times Thursday his country would not execute the medics as legislation limiting death penalty to a few sorts of crime was in the pipeline.
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European leaders condemned a Libyan court's death sentence on six foreign medical workers, while the United States vowed to pursue efforts to gain their release.
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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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LONDON, July 24 -- Five Bulgarian medical workers arrived home to an emotional welcome Tuesday after more than eight years in Libyan prisons, closing a case that caused international furor over Libyan justice and raised questions about whether a ransom was paid for their release.
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Libya rejects criticism over death sentences passed on a group of foreign medics for infecting children with HIV.
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Libya&#39;s top legal body meets on Tuesday to decide whether to uphold or revoke death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, with a compensation deal for victims likely to win them a reprieve.
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Libya has distributed funds to more than half the Libyan families of children with HIV under a deal that could free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them, a spokesman for the families said on Tuesday.
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Efforts to free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV may be near a conclusion after "positive" European initiatives, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday.
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More than half of the 426 Libyan families of children with HIV have already cashed in compensation money in a deal that paves the way for the release of six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting the children, a spokesman for the families said on Tuesday.
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Libya&#39;s top legal body was to meet on Monday to decide whether to confirm or annul death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, possibly the final stage in a case that has dragged on for eight years.
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SOFIA (bnn)- Five Bulgarian nurses, whom Libya has sentenced to death for allegedly causing an AIDS outbreak at a childrenâs hospital, will likely sue the Arab state for illegally arresting and torturing them, an official said Monday.
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Libya's Supreme Court upheld death sentences on Wednesday against six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV, but officials said they could win a reprieve next week.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a partnership deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly contaminating children with the AIDS virus left Tripoli Tuesday on board a plane with the French president's wife, France's presidential palace said.
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The families of hundreds of HIV positive children in Libya received a $460 million financial settlement on Tuesday, opening the door for a state panel to free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them.
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By KHALED EL-DEEB and WILLA THAYER , Associated Press Writers Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court Tuesday on charges they deliberately infected ...Comment