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BBC News - November 4, 2006
Judge Mahmoud Haouissa made the announcement at the Tripoli court hearing the retrial that began in May.
An initial trial condemned the medics to death in 2004, but the Libyan Supreme Court overturned the verdicts.
The defendants are accused of knowingly infecting more than 400 children with HIV in the eastern town of Benghazi.
The medics say that they were tortured into giving false confessions.
The first trial lasted almost six years, and the medics have been in jail since 1999.
They say the children were infected through poor hygiene.
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