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Doctor/nurses AIDS case resumes

    JOHANNESBURG
    A retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV resumed on Tuesday at a criminal court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The six healthcare professionals, who face death by firing squad if found guilty, have been in custody since 1999. All bail applications have been rejected. Othman al-Bizanti, the lawyer for the nurses, told Agence France-Presse that proceedings were adjourned in June after he requested more time to call 26 defence witnesses to the stand, and he anticipated that the trial could be delayed again. "The court has not yet decided to call the Libyan witnesses I want to appear ... we expect the session to be adjourned again for two weeks to hear testimony," al-Bizanti said.

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