30/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - The trial of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, accused of injecting children with HIV, the aids virus, in a hospital in Benghazi in 1998, restarted on Tuesday. After the charges were heard, proceedings were adjourned until 5 September. The prosecution once again called for the death penalty. The Court of Appeal in Tripoli is hearing their appeal against the death sentence delivered in May 2004. On 8 August, the Court rejected the defence's request for the defendants, who have been imprisoned since 1999, to be released on bail. During the course of the trial, the nurses claimed that their confessions had been obtained through torture. Bulgaria supported these claims.