Death Sentences Voided for 5 Bulgarian Nurses
Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for allegedly infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV will be spared, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi said.
“I rule out the possibility of executing the Bulgarian defendants,” Seif Islam Kadafi said in an interview. He often acts as a spokesman for his father.
The younger Kadafi said the Appeals Court might impose a prison term. He indicated that the five might then be expelled to Bulgaria. They were convicted in a trial criticized by international observers for, among other things, using confessions obtained through torture.
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