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Nature 448, 398 (26 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448398a; Published online 25 July 2007
Libyan ordeal ends: medics freed
Declan Butler
A French government aircraft carrying six medical workers convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV touched down in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 24 July, ending their 8-year ordeal in a Libyan prison.The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor — given life sentences after more than 400 children contracted HIV at the hospital they worked at in Benghazi in 1998 — were immediately pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.
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