BMJ  2007;335:115 (21 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39280.560995.D

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Foreign health workers look set to escape Libyan death sentence

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Death sentences pronounced by a Libyan court on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian intern accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV looked to be on the point of being overturned as the BMJ went to press.

Relatives of the infected children agreed to drop calls for capital punishment in return for compensation of $1m (£0.5m, 0.7m) for each family, the Bulgarian television channel BTV said.

A hearing before Libya's Supreme Judicial Council concerning the fate of the foreign workers had been set for 16 July, but it has been postponed twice. The Libyan government gave no reason for the delay, but the Bulgarian news programme attibuted the delay to the need to collect more signatures from the children's families, waiving their demand for the death penalty.

The families' spokesman, Idriss Lagha, told Agence France Presse that relatives were to sign the agreement only at the moment they cashed . . . [Full text of this article]

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