bya since 1999, are innocent.

It was reported that Tripoli has informally suggested in meetings with diplomats and charity officials in January that the nurses could go free if Bulgaria pays compensation to the children and their families, who demanded a total of $5.5 billion. Bulgaria on her part had refused to pay, but has joined the United States, the EU and Libya in agreeing to back the creation of an aid fund.

With the death of around 50 HIV-infected children the popular anger in Libya has been further fuelled, but analysts are of the opinion that the offer of aid may give Tripoli a face-saving opportunity to free the nurses.

While the prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for the six. The medics, Palestinian doctor Ashraf Alhajouj and Bulgarians Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropolu, Christiana Valcheva and Valia Cherveniashka have denied the charges in both their first and second trials and have repeatedly testified that they were tortured to make them confess.

Bulgaria and its allies are in full support the ' torture claims by the medic’s and the global AIDS experts have stated that the outbreak at the Benghazi hospital where they worked began before they arrived.

The retrial was adjourned to Sept 21.
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