The physical and mental condition of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya is very bad.

That was announced by the son of doctor Zdravko Georgiev, husband of one of the nurses who was also jailed but then acquitted in Libya.

The relatives of the nurses visited them in Libya ahead of the Christmas holidays.

On December 25 Libya's Supreme Court will hear the case of five Bulgarian nurses. The date for the session was rescheduled from January 31, 2006.

On May 6, 2004 the Bulgarians were sentenced to death by firing squad. They were pronounced guilty of deliberately infecting 400 Libyan children with HIV.

Now the Supreme Court could either hold up the death sentences or order a new trial. There is also a possibility for the hearing to be put off.

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