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		Libya will not execute the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death earlier this year for infecting more than 400 children with HIV in 1998, according to a son of the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.
		The trial against the two Libyan officers who had allegedly tortured the Bulgarian nurses in Libya to extract false confessions was postponed for March 22.
		Libya has offered to spare the lives of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on death row if the UK hands over the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, according to The Sunday Times.
	ummahnewslinks.com /2006/12/19/timeline-bulgarian-medics-trial-in-libya.aspx (4444 words)

	HIV trial in Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The HIV trial in Libya concerns the trial, conviction, and the death sentence imposed by a Libyan court against the Benghazi Six: five Bulgarian nurses (Kristiyana Valtcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka, and Snezhana Dimitrova) and one Palestinian physician (Ashraf al-Hajuj, alias al-Hadjudj).
		The international community and medical authorities disputed the convictions and argued that the HIV infections were caused by pre-existing poor hygiene at the children's hospital, and that the Benghazi Six were scapegoats being cynically used by Libya as a bargaining chip.
		The civil lawsuit against the six medics was postponed until December 27, 2005, which is expected to be after the conclusion of their last appeal trial [15].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trial_against_the_Bulgarian_medics_and_a_Palestinian_doctor_in_Libya (2055 words)

	libya - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya (Arabic: ليبيا) is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
		The sanctions were lifted on September 12, 2003, after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of those who died in the bombing.
		On December 19, 2003, Libya admitted having had a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program and simultaneously announced its intention to end it and dismantle all existing WMD to be verified by unconditional inspections.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Libya (1147 words)

	Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Libya remained part of their empire, although at times virtually autonomous, until Italy invaded in 1911 and, in the face of years of resistance, made Libya a colony.
		It is bound to the west by Tunisia and Algeria, the southwest by Niger, the south by Chad and Sudan and to the east by Egypt.
		Libya faces a long road ahead in liberalizing the socialist-oriented economy, but initial steps - including applying for WTO membership, reducing some subsidies, and announcing plans for privatization - are laying the groundwork for a transition to a more market-based economy.
	toshare.info /en/Libya.htm (2684 words)

	Libya - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Libya (Arabic: ليبيا, transliterated Lībiyyā) is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
		Relations between the UK and Libya became strained following the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege, when shots were fired at a crowd of protesters, killing a policewoman, leading to a break in relations.
		In practice, however, Libya is essentially a militarydictatorship, with Qadhafi ruling by decree, assisted by a small clique of military and political officials.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/i/b/Libya.html (1459 words)

	The trial in Libya - CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Arab ambassadors are invited to a meeting with Bulgarian medical specialists to be familiarized with the international experts’ conclusions on the case at the pediatric hospital in Benghazi.
		The Interdepartmental Commission on the trial in Libya views the hearing scheduled for December 22 as a sign that greater precision and objectivity are being sought in considering all aspects of the case.
		The Bulgarian medics are charged with intentionally infecting 393 Libyan children with AIDS, causing an AIDS epidemic at the Al Fatih Hospital in Benghazi, engaging in illicit sexual relationships, distilling alcohol, drinking alcohol in public places and illegally transacting in foreign currency.
	www.bta.bg /site/libya/en/02chronology.htm (17886 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: Worried Bulgaria Awaits Libyan HIV Trial Verdict
		SOFIA (Reuters) - A Libyan court is expected to announce on Saturday its verdicts in an unprecedented trial of six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor charged with deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
		The trial of the five Bulgarian female nurses and one male doctor began on June 2 after a long delay.
		Libya has a two-tier judicial system in which the local court ruling could be overruled by the Court of Appeal.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/2001/RE010921.html (670 words)

	Libya: News and Views : January ليبيا وطننا : أخبار وآراء : يناير 2007
		Libya’s position regarding the case of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV is also mentioned in the declaration.
		The release of the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, sentenced to death in Libya is not a matter of negotiations, the Bulgarian EU Commissioner on Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva said, cited by Reuters.
		Vaccination against the Papillomavirus, which affects female genitalia, and new surgery techniques against urinary incontinence are the objectives of the mission to Libya of a delegation of gynecologists from the human reproduction and infertility therapy centre "Genesi" in Palermo, Italy.
	www.libya-watanona.com /news/n2007/jan/0107nwsc.htm (11981 words)

	Libyan court moves up hearing in HIV case \| News \| Advocate.com
		The medics' convictions have sparked international criticism and have become an obstacle to Libyan leader Mu’ammar Gadhafi's goal of improved relations with Europe and the United States.
		Bulgarian foreign minister Ivailo Kalfin told journalists, “If we can in any way influence what is happening in Libya and the trial [against the Bulgarian medics], that will be with the power of public opinion in both Bulgaria and abroad as well as the power of our diplomatic and political partners in the world.”
		Bulgarian and other European officials have accused Libyan authorities of trying to pin blame on the defendants for poor hygiene practices they say caused the infections.
	www.advocate.com /news_detail_ektid23668.asp (297 words)

	Accusations against medics charged with infecting children with HIV - attempt to cover up poor Libyan medical system
		The accusations against five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor charged with infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV are "an attempt to deflect Libyans' attention from the shocking state of their own medical system," a Washington Post editorial says (Washington Post, 10/29).
		In the latest development in the cases of the foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya for supposedly deliberately infecting children at a hospital with HIV, the six are now being subjected to a...
		The Palestinian doctor sentenced to death along with five Bulgarian nurses for allegedly infecting 426 Libyan children with the HIV virus has been Bulgarian citizenship.
	www.medical-buzz.com /accusations-against-medics-charged-with-infecting-children-with-hiv-attempt-to-cover-up-poor-libyan-medical-system,173262.html (236 words)

	Libyan court orders retrial of Bulgarian nurses - World - smh.com.au
		Bulgarian medics (from right to left) Zdravko Georgiev, Valia Cherveniashka, Snezana Dimitrova, Valentina Siropoulu and Nasia Nenova taken in October 2003 at a court in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
		Libya's Supreme Court has overturned death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor and ordered them retried on charges of infecting children with the HIV virus, in an attempt by Libya to resolve a case that has poisoned its ties with the West.
		The trial has stoked anger within Libya, with the families of the infected children demonstrating at every court session and reacting with outrage at the repeated delays in carrying out the original verdict.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/libyan-court-orders-retrial-of-bulgarian-nurses/2005/12/26/1135445508319.html (1098 words)

	Benghazi: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Modern Benghazi, on the Gulf of Sidra (Gulf of Sidra: Wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya), lies a little southwest of the site of the ancient Greek (Greek: A native or inhabitant of Greece) city of Berenice or Berenicis.
		In the late 1990s a children's hospital (children's hospital: more facts about this subject) in Benghazi was the site of an outbreak (outbreak: A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)) of HIV (HIV: Infection by the human immunideficiency virus) infection that spread to over 400 patients.
		Libya blamed the outbreak on Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor (Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor: the trial against the bulgarian medics and a palestinian doctor in libya is the prosecution...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/benghazi (628 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Medics face Libyan firing squad for 'giving HIV to children'
		Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV were sentenced to death by a Libyan court yesterday.
		During the trial, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French Aids expert who first identified HIV, testified that poor hygiene and the re-use of infected medical equipment such as needles were the most likely causes of the infections.
		The case had dragged on for more than five years since the medical staff were arrested in January 1999, but its outcome creates an untimely problem in Libya's international relations which have been improving as a result of its decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction and the resolution of the Lockerbie affair.
	www.guardian.co.uk /libya/story/0,14139,1211233,00.html (780 words)

	Justice Crisis in Libya - Snezhana Dimitrova, Valya Chervenyashka, Valentina Siropulo, Nasya Nenova, Kristiyana ...
		Libya’s leader Colonel Gaddafi alleged that the infection was a plot by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's intelligence agency the Mossad to destabilize the country.
		The medics were sentenced to death, despite scientific evidence that the youngsters had the virus before the medical workers came to Libya.
		Two nurses and the Palestinian doctor declared in court, that their confessions were acquired as a result of torture.
	www.medicinwithoutborders.org /crisis_in_libya.html (958 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Libya
		By the 19th century it was an increasingly independent Ottoman province; and came under the control of Italy in 1912.
		Relations between the UK and Libya became strained following the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
		In the same vein, on February 26, 2004, the United States lifted its 23-year travel ban to Libya, and on September 21, 2004, eliminated remaining economic sanctions against the former pariah, lifting the prohibitions of the Libyan Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 550, and unblocking property and property interests previously blocked under those regulations.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/ISO_3166-1:LY (1243 words)

	Embassy of Bulgaria
		The verdict on the accusations against the Bulgarian medics was announced well before the Libyan courts are able to address the accusations against the Libyan security officers who conducted the investigation and who are accused of torturing the defendants to obtain confessions;
		In view of the critical health condition of the five Bulgarian nurses who have been in Libyan prison for the last 5 years, the Bulgarian side is now focused on urgently moving forward the appealing procedure and urging the Libyan authorities to facilitate the process by complying fully and expeditiously with the relevant legal requirements.
		A sixth defendant in the trial, Bulgarian doctor Zdravko Georgiev, was found guilty of illegal transactions in foreign currency and sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 600 dinars.
	www.bulgaria-embassy.org /WebPage/!/05112004_Libya_Trial_Talking_Points.htm (563 words)

	Libya: News and Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Libya's efforts to warm its relations with Europe will be dealt a heavy blow in case death sentences are delivered against the six Bulgarian medics, Liberal MP Matias Yorshi from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said.
		Libya's exceptional laws have, among other things, banned the formation of political parties and stipulated death penalties for dissidents.The official news agency JANA reported that Qadhafi also called for an end to arrests without warrant and urged the congresses to endorse int'l anti-torture conventions.
		Libya last August took responsibility for the bombing and paid $2.7 billion in compensation that is to be paid out to the victims' families under a phased deal that is tied to the lifting of sanctions.
	www.libya1.com /news/n2004/april/0404nwsc.htm (13247 words)

	Gulfnews: Medics will not be executed, says Gaddafi's son
		"The decision of the Libyan justice against the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor is still in the hands of the supreme court which has not yet rendered its final decision," the largest pan-Islamic body said.
		Meanwhile, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said the Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor had received unjust verdicts and that they would not be executed, a Bulgarian newspaper reported yesterday.
		It sentenced all the medical personnel to death.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/07/01/30/10100481.html (356 words)

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		Trial against the Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor in Libya - a little-watched story; the article is decent but could use some knowledgeable polishing.
		Web 2.0 - I had to thoroughly rewrite this article due to a high fog index.
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	Death sentence for medics in Libya trial - SciDev.Net
		Today the Libyan Supreme Court in Tripoli sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for willingly infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV at the al-Fateh Hospital in the coastal city of Benghazi in 1998.
		The nurses and doctor have been in detention since 1999 and were sentenced to death in May 2004, but the Libyan Supreme Court quashed the ruling last December after protests over the trial's fairness, ordering the case be returned to a lower court.
		Last month 114 Nobel Laureates wrote an open letter to Libya's leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, asking that defence lawyers be given the right to examine witnesses on the health workers' behalf, and that the court hears evidence from experts in HIV/AIDS research (see: 'A plea for justice: Nobel Laureates write to Gaddafi').
	www.scidev.net /content/news/eng/death-sentence-for-medics-in-libya-trial.cfm (473 words)

	Bnn, Bulgarian news network - online news agency \ Бнм, Българска новинарска мрежа
		The agreement for the Bulgarian medics sentenced to death in Libya may be concluded to 2-3 days.
		The European Union and Libya may soon reach an agreement on the issue of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian citizenship charged with intentionally infecting more than 400 Libyan children with the HIV virus.
		Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev met Thursday three of the relatives of the Bulgarian medics imprisoned in Libya on charges of infecting some 400 children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital, the Bulgarian National Radio reported.
	www.bgnewsnet.com /srubric.php?lang=en&srid=1&rid=1 (431 words)

	Slander trial of Bulgaria's nurses moved to May 6 - News news
		Yet again an important date for all Bulgarians, May 6 — St George’s Day and Day of the Bulgarian Army — was chosen by the supreme court in Libya to establish whether the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for deliberately infecting children with HIV are guilty of slandering Libyan police members.
		Royal underlined that in a case of victory on May 6, she would talk to German chancellor Angela Merkel to include the medics’ case on the agenda of the European Council to be held in June.
		Other high-profile French politicians who called for the freeing of the medics were former French justice minister Robert Badinter (who was one of the initiators for the abolition of capital punishment in France in 1981, and who was also present at the meeting with Royal) and prime minister Dominique de Villepin.
	sofiaecho.com /article/slander-trial-of-bulgarias-nurses-moved-to-may-6/id_22281/catid_5 (879 words)

	Lex news \| lex.bg - Bulgarian Law Portal
		The five Bulgarian and one Palestinian medics have been sentenced to death in 2004, but the Supreme Court quashed the ruling after protests over the fairness of the trial.
		Bulgarian Nurses Await Their Fate in Libyan HIV Trial
		A Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses will learn tomorrow whether they must die by firing squad for deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV.
	lex.bg /news.php?lang=eng (131 words)

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