All eyes were on Libya today (15 November) as the country's supreme court was to decide on the appeal of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, facing the death penalty after being convicted of deliberately infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV.
However, the court has postponed the ruling again, until early next year.
"The court delays the hearing to January 31 to give further time for the defence," said the court's presiding judge Ali al-Alouss, Reuters reported.
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