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Published online 11 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070709-6
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Libyan court upholds death sentences
Hopes remain for deal to free medics accused over HIV outbreak.
Libya's Supreme Court in Tripoli this morning rejected the ultimate legal appeal of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic convicted of deliberately injecting hundreds of children with HIV in 1998.
A decision on the six's fate will be made on Monday 16 July by the Supreme Council for Judicial Authority.
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