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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9240

27 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/bulgaria/libya
New postponement of Bulgarian nurses' appeal trial against death sentence in Libya

Brussels, 26/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Appeal in Tripoli, which was expected to rule on 25 July on the case of 5 Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of inoculating the AIDS virus into children in a hospital in Benghazi, has postponed the trial until 8 August. The accused are appealing against the death penalty imposed on 6 May 2004. Their trial has been going on since 1999. The president of the court Mahmoud al-Howeissa announced that “the process has been...

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