Libya Court Overturns Sentence in AIDS Case

In an earlier post, I pointed to a story about Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor charged with deliberately spreading the AIDS virus, which was a bogus charge. Recently a Libyan court overturned their sentence. From the article:

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor at the center of intense international negotiations won a reprieve on Sunday, when Libya's highest court overturned their death sentences on charges they deliberately infected children with AIDS.
The United States and the European Union have accused Libya of trumping up the charges to divert attention from poor hygiene at its hospitals. And Western diplomats have made it clear that their future relations with Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi depend upon the outcome of the case.


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--Tom Hayes