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United Press International - September 21, 2006
The Tripoli court adjourned until Oct. 31 after a Bulgarian defense lawyer failed to appear in the courtroom as he was hospitalized earlier Thursday, the Bulgarian news agency SNA reported.
Under Libyan law, a court hearing cannot be held if the defendant's lawyers are not attending the proceedings for valid reason.
The five nurses and the doctor were sentenced to death by a firing squad by a court in Benghazi in 1999 for deliberately infecting the children with the HIV virus which causes AIDS.
The Tripoli Court of Appeals overturned the death sentences in December and ordered a retrial that began in May.
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