In Libya, medics acquitted of slander
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- A Tripoli Criminal Court acquitted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor yesterday on charges of slander. The medics were accused of making false accusations that Libyan officials had tortured them to extract confessions in an investigation into HIV infections at Benghazi Children's Hospital where they worked.
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COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4 -- Three Danish journalists who published classified intelligence reports on Iraq's former weapons program were acquitted Monday of endangering national security.
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World leaders expressed their outrage Tuesday over death sentences handed down by a Libyan court against five Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with the HIV ...Comment
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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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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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TRIPOLI, Libya -- Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.
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TRIPOLI -- Libya's Supreme Court will rule in July on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV in a trial that has affected Tripoli's ties with the West. "The case is reserved for a verdict on July 11," the judge, Fathi Dhan, told the court yesterday. The five Bulgarian nurses and a ...
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A Libyan court will deliver verdicts on  Tuesday on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor  accused of infecting hundreds of children with HIV in a ruling  likely to have an impact on Libya's opening to the West.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a "full partnership" deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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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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Libya may "re-examine" the death sentences handed down earlier this year to five Bulgarian nurses found guilty of infecting children at a Libyan hospital with H.I.V. in 1998, a top Libyan official has said.
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Libya's Supreme Court is to rule on the case of foreign medics on death row for infecting children with HIV.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a "full partnership" deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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New evidence casts doubt on charges against a doctor and five nurses accused of deliberately infecting children with H.I.V.
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Scientists have cast doubt on charges that six foreign medics deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV.
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The Tripoli criminal court has heard testimony from three prosecution witnesses as the re-trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor charged with infecting Libyan children with the AIDS virus resumed.
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"The indemnities are financed by international contributions in the form of debt remission"  Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.The six foreign medics have been sentenced to death in the case, and Libyan officials have said a settlement could pave the way for their release.Jailed since 1999, the six deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture. Experts and outside scientific reports have said the children were contaminated as a result of unhygienic conditions at a hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi. Fifty of the infected children died. Read more