The first session of Libya's Supreme Cassation Court on the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor's death sentences appeal is to be held on Wednesday.

The court could confirm, cancel or change the already imposed sentences but it could not order a retrial.

If the judges decide to cancel the penalties then the case will be at issue upon its merits.

If the sentences are confirmed, the trial will be considered by the magistrates of the Libyan Supreme Council, which has the right to change the decisions of the court.

The third possible outcome is setting a date when the court will announce its final decision.

All three Bulgarian lawyers and the Libyan defender of the medics will be present in the court hall but the defendants will not attend the sitting, recent reports showed.

The Libyan Prosecutor's Office has already officially demanded confirmation of the medics' death sentences after submitting a hundred-page-long document, which describes all the evidence that prove the defendants are guilty.

The five nurses and the doctor are charged with deliberately infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV in Benghazi hospital. The accused are put behind bars in Judeyda prison for more than eight years now.

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