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Nurses, doctor may be acquitted

The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death by a Libyan court had received unjust verdicts and that they would not be executed, a Bulgarian newspaper reported Jan. 29.

Seif al Islam Gadhaffi AP PHOTO

"We don't want to see executions in Libya, of Libyans or Bulgarians." the newspaper 24 Chassa quoted Seif al Islam Gadhaffi as saying.

Asked whether he could provide any guarantees that they will not be executed, Seif al Islam said, "we will not execute anyone," according to the newspaper.

A Libyan court in December convicted the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of intentionally infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV, despite scientific evidence that the youngsters had the virus before the medical workers arrived in Libya. It sentenced all the medical personnel to death.

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