TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting children with the HIV virus and sent the case back to a lower court for retrial.
The six, jailed since 1999, had been sentenced to death by firing squad in a case that blocking Libyan efforts to improve ties with the West. Several diplomats said Libya was eager to put the case behind it and return to mainstream global politics.
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