Foreign medics sentenced to die in Libya HIV 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 HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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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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A Libyan court dismisses defamation charges against foreign medics already sentenced to die in another case.
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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&#39;s Supreme Court on Wednesday  upheld death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a  Palestinian doctor for deliberately infecting hundreds of  Libyan children with HIV.
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The families of Libyan children infected with the AIDS virus have dropped demands for the death penalty in the case of six foreign medics on death row in the case, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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LONDON, July 17 -- Officials in Libya on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of six foreign health workers convicted of intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, the latest in a series of steps aimed at closing a case that has severely strained relations between a once-pariah...
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The families of hundreds of Libyan children with HIV will receive more than $400 million under a deal expected to help free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting them, a source said on Monday.
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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 were convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court Tuesday on charges they deliberately infected hundreds of children with the AIDS virus. The verdict can be appealed.
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EU doctors visit HIV-infected children in Libya after signals that death sentences on six  medics could be re-examined.
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An international fund and families of HIV-infected children in Libya have not yet agreed a financial package for them, a lawyer for foreign medics sentenced to death in the case said on Thursday.
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The families of hundreds of Libyan  children with HIV will receive more than $400 million under a  deal expected to help free six foreign medics sentenced to  death for infecting them, a source said on Monday.
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The French president's wife meets the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV.
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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
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Efforts to free six foreign medics  sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with the HIV  virus have yet to result in a deal on compensation, a group  representing the families of the children said on Sunday.
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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.