The six Bulgarian medics tried in Tripoli expect the Libyan criminal court to schedule the next hearing of their case in December or early January, one of the detainees, Dr Zdravko Georgiev, told Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) Wednesday. Dr Georgiev added that the medics' Libyan lawyer Osman Bizanti was also reckoning on such development. According to the lawyer, the the Muslim religious holidays - the Ramadan, that end next week were the reason for the delay of the trial. Six Bulgarian nurses and Dr Zdravko Georgiev were charged with deliberately infecting some 400 Libyan children with the HIV virus. They were arrested in February, 1999 and three years later were moved from prison to a guarded villa near Tripoli .