Libya's highest judicial body said Tuesday it had commuted the death sentences against six foreign medics to life imprisonment. They were convicted of intentionally starting an AIDS epidemic at a children's hospital. "The High Judicial Council decided to commute the death >sentences against the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor to life-imprisonment terms," the Council said in a brief statement on Tuesday. The decision followed news that relatives of the Libyan HIV-infected children had agreed to drop their demand that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, all of whom were convicted in December, be executed. "We have notified in writing that the families have relinquished their demand for the execution" of the six medics, Idriss Lagha, thehead of the Libyan-based Association for the Families of HIV-Infected Children, told The Associated Press.
"The High Judicial Council decided to commute the death >sentences against the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor to life-imprisonment terms," the Council said in a brief statement on Tuesday.
The decision followed news that relatives of the Libyan HIV-infected children had agreed to drop their demand that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, all of whom were convicted in December, be executed.
"We have notified in writing that the families have relinquished their demand for the execution" of the six medics, Idriss Lagha, thehead of the Libyan-based Association for the Families of HIV-Infected Children, told The Associated Press.
