Death row medics launch last-ditch appeal in Libya
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Six foreign medics on death row for infecting Libyan children with the AIDS virus launched a final appeal on Wednesday after more than eight years behind bars for a crime they say they did not commit.
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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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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said yesterday .
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Thousands of people demonstrated across  Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian  nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for  infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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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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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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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could re-examined.
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Six foreign medics face execution by firing squad or hanging after being convicted by a Libyan court of deliberately 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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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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Politics: 18 October 2004, Monday. The five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya could only provisionally count on the support of the European officials, Switzerland's Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.
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Five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death in Libya on charges of spreading AIDS want to sue the northern African country for &quot;unlawful arrest&quot; and torture.
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Libya's Supreme Court will hear an appeal next week by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus, Bulgaria said on Friday.
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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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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's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld death sentences on six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV, a ruling that paves the way for moves by Muammar Gaddafi's government to win their freedom.
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A Libyan court will hear an appeal next week by five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus, a Bulgarian official said on Friday.