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Nurses and Doctor infected 400 children with AIDS virus MIL, Nov 15, 2005. Libya's high court on Tuesday again delayed making a ruling on whether five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor should be executed by firing squad for allegedly infecting 400 children with the AIDS virus. Dr. Raj Baldev, President National Integration Assembly (NIA), an NGO from New Delhi, which helps prevent AIDS, has sent a feeler to the Libya's High Court that the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian Doctor, who infected 400 children with the AIDS virus, should be given capital punishment. All such people who are enemies of humanity should either be shot dead or hanged. As per newsdesk@afxnews.com, the Supreme Court presiding judge Ali al-Alus announced a decision had been put off to Jan 31. The judge said the delay was decided at the request of Libya's prosecutor general. A confirmation of the verdict could endanger Libya's gradual return to the international fold since Kadhafi renounced the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in late 2003. Demonstrators reacted to the delay by pelting the court building with stones, as police moved in to protect diplomats and journalists who attended the brief hearing. Bulgaria's foreign ministry in Sofia said the delay only 'prolongs the already long period of detention of our nurses who are at the limit of their physical and psychological strength'. Bulgaria has refused to buy the freedom of the nurses by paying compensation to the families of the children. Human Rights Watch said four of the six defendants had told the New York-based rights watchdog in May that they had confessed after enduring torture, including beatings, electric shock and sexual assault. Both the US and the EU have put pressure on Tripoli to release the health workers and have offered to help Tripoli combat the spread of AIDS by improving its ramshackle health system.
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