Libya lifts ‘HIV medics’ sentence
Libya‘s supreme court has overturned death sentences on six foreign health workers who were charged with infecting Libyan children with HIV.
It has also ordered a retrial of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor in a lower court.
The six were sentenced to death in May 2004 for infecting 426 children with the HIV virus in the city of Benghazi.
They have always maintained they are innocent. Bulgaria, the US and the European Union had urged their release.
The medics say they were made scapegoats for poor hospital hygiene.
The BBC’s Bethany Bell in the Egyptian capital Cairo says the decision to order a retrial appears to be an attempt to end the stand-off between Libya and the West.
Source: BBC.
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