The five Bulgarian nurses, who have been jailed in Libya for seven years now for deliberately infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV, will return to Bulgaria by the end of September.

The news was broken by Bulgaria's Deputy Foreign Minister Feim Chaushev in an interview for local Darik radio. "I am convinced that by August or September, or even earlier they will come back home. All institutions are doing their best to provide a fair outcome of the trial," Chaushev added.

Meanwhile, Libya Today newspaper reported in its online edition that the first session of the re-trial against the nurses will take place on May 11. It was also reported that the hearing would take place in Tripoli instead of in Benghazi over safety concerns.

The nurses were sentenced to death by a firing squad. Their case was returned for reviewing by the court of appeals and a new hearing still hasn't been scheduled. The five have spent over seven years jailed in Libya.

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