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Update on Tripoli Six

By clock on July 12, 2007.

Revere, Orac and PZ have an update on the fate of the Tripoli 6. Revere explains:

The final act in the drama of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor imprisoned for seven years and sentenced to death by firing squad in Libya after being accused of deliberately infecting over 400 chidren with HIV in a children's hospital in Bengazi ... is now being played out in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

Affirming the death sentence is a (regrettably) necessary first step in resolving the issue and, paradoxically, saving the lives and obtaining the freedom of the accused, whose confessions they say were coerced by torture. A precondition for a positive outcome for the accused was an agreement between the EU and Libya's Gaddafi Foundation charity on funding lifetime care for the children, an agreement said to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

The announcement today that the deal has been affirmed along with news that the High Judicial Council will meet on Monday is believed to be a signal to the international community the sentences will be commuted. Until the Tripoli 6 have been repatriated and are free we can only update you on developments.

I'll also post as soon as I hear how the events unfold.

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