Libya to spell out position after medics' pardon

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TRIPOLI, Jul 28 (AFP): Libya's leaders are to hold a news conference Saturday after sharply criticising a decision by Bulgaria's president to pardon six medics from life jail terms in an AIDS case.
Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi and Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham are to explain the circumstances surrounding the release of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian nationality.
Held in Libya since 1999, the six medics were sentenced to death after being found guilty of deliberately infecting 438 Libyan children with the AIDS-causing HIV virus. Fifty-six of the children later died.
Libyan authorities allowed them to return Tuesday to Bulgaria, where they had been due to serve life prison terms but they were immediately pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgy Parvanov.
The move angered Tripoli, which summoned a top Bulgarian diplomat in the Libyan capital Wednesday in protest, saying it was not in compliance with an extradition treaty between the two countries.