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No execution for AIDS accused health workers

    JOHANNESBURG

    Libya will not execute six health workers accused of intentionally infecting more than 400 children with HIV, said Seif al-Islam e-Qaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.

    Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who have been detained since 1999, were sentenced to death by firing squad in May.

    According to the New York Times, Seif al-Islam said Libya would like to expel the nurses to Bulgaria, suggesting that their expulsion might be linked to the extradition of a Libyan man serving a life sentence in Scotland for the 1988 downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

    He did not disclose the fate of the Palestinian doctor.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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