Libya Commutes Death Sentences of Medics Accused of Infecting Children with HIV
20.07.07
The Libyan government has commuted the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor. Convicted of deliberately infecting over 438 children with the HIV virus the medics, who say torture was used to extract false confessions, were imprisoned in 1999 and sentenced to death in 2004. On Tuesday the Supreme Judiciary Council of Libya passed down a decision to commute the death sentences to life in prison after a compensation deal was accepted by the parents of the infected children. Foreign experts say the infections started before the medics arrived at the hospital and are more likely to have been a result of poor hygiene. Bulgaria has officially requested that the six medics be transferred to Bulgaria.
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