CAIRO, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - Libya...
Court overturned the last possible appeal in July 2007, upholding the death sentences, but the Libyan High Judicial Council"s ruling later commuted the foreign nationals" sentences to life imprisonment, and Libyan authorities suggested that deportation to Bulgaria was a possibility.Bulgaria made an official request for Tripoli to repatriate the medics to serve their sentences in Bulgaria. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov pardoned the medics immediately upon their arrival in the country.
Compensation totaling $1 million for each infected child has been paid to the 460 children"s families. Fifty-six of the children have died. The cash was raised by an international fund financed mainly by the EU and the U.S.
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