Libya Delays Indemnity Claim Verdict against Bulgarian Nurses

Politics | October 15, 2005, Saturday // 00:00

A Benghazi court postponed for December 17 the hearing of the second civil indemnity claim, filed by families of infected Libyan children in the HIV trial against five Bulgarian nurses.

The delay came upon the request of all sides in the case. Tripoli's Supreme Court, which was to confirm the death sentences of the Bulgarian convicts or call for a retrial on May 31, is to reconsider the death verdict on November 15.

On October 2 the Southern court in Benghazi heard the claim brought by the family of a young Libyan HIV victim, who claim their child was killed by the Bulgarians. The relatives of the girl are demanding 15 million Libyan dinars. The amount of the indemnity claim was increased during the first court session on the caser on May 15. The next hearing of the case was scheduled for December 27.

Last year Libya found the five Bulgarian health workers and a Palestinian doctor guilty of having caused the death of 40 children and of infecting almost 400 others with HIV at a Benghazi hospital.

The nurses were sentenced to death by a firing squad, sparking cries of foul from Bulgaria and its allies the United States and the European Union. The medics' confessions, which were extracted with torture, is the only evidence proving their guilt.

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