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 changed the death sentences of six medical workers to life in prison after the families of the infected children each received $1 million.
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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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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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Six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence in Libya after an eight-year ordeal over the infection of hundreds of children with HIV-tainted blood were facing an anxious wait on Wednesday as the world called on Tripoli to send them home.
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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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Libya on Tuesday commuted death  sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor  convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV, raising  hopes they would soon be freed after eight years in jail.
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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.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria - Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV plan to seek compensation from Tripoli for illegal arrest and torture, Bulgaria&#39;s justice minister said Monday.
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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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"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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A Libyan court on Tuesday found five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor guilty of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS and sentenced them all to death.
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A Libyan court is to deliver its verdict in the retrial of six foreign medics accused of infecting children with HIV.
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Libya&#39;s top legal body meets on Tuesday to rule on death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, with a compensation deal for victims set to win them a reprieve.
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A Libyan court has condemned to death five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of spreading HIV-AIDS among hundreds of children in hospital, in a verdict greeted with shock by the international community.
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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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Libya may &quot;re-examine&quot; the death sentences handed down earlier this year to five Bulgarian nurses found guilty of infecting children at a Libyan hospital with HIV in 1998, a top Libyan official has said.