Libya: foreign health-care workers sentenced to death for deliberate infection.
On 6 May 2004, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting 426 children with HIV were sentenced to death by the Benghazi Criminal Court in Libya. The execution is to be carried out by firing squad. The panel of five judges also sentenced a sixth Bulgarian, a doctor, to four years' imprisonment. The doctor originally faced the same charges as the others, but instead was convicted of illegally changing foreign currency. The court did not explain the modification of charges.
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D002031:Bulgaria; D002203:Capital Punishment; D002648:Child; D005551:Foreign Professional Personnel / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008002:Libya