Libya lifts medics' death sentenceLibya's highest judicial body has commuted the death sentences against the six foreign medics, found guilt of deliberately infecting children with the HIV virus, to life imprisonment.
The decision from the Supreme Judiciary Council came shortly after families of the children started to receive compensation.
The five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor are now expected to complete the remaining 17 years of their sentences in Bulgaria. Probably when they reach Bulgaria they will be set free. So basically the effective punishment is 8 years in prison in Lybia + paying the compensation which they did not personally pay. That is fair enough. Notice that 8 years in a Lybian jail equals 800 years in a western jail.