A file photo of Bulgarian medics (L-R) Valentina Siropoulu, Zdravko Georgiev, Kristina Valcheva, lawyer Hristo Danov, the special envoy of Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov, Valia Cherveniashka, Snezana Dimitrova and Nasia Stoicheva, taken on April 6, 2001 in a prison in the Libyan capital Tripoli. A Libyan criminal court sentenced the six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad May 6, 2004 for infecting more than 400 Libyan children with the deadly HIV virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites), Bulgarian radio reported. (Reuters - Handout)

Six Bulgarian health workers and a Palestinian doctor watch proceedings Thursday, May 6, 2004, from inside the defendants' cage in a Benghazi, Libya, courtroom. All but one Bulgarian doctor were convicted Thursday of infecting more than 400 children with the virus that causes AIDS and were sentenced to death by firing squad. The one doctor was sentenced to four years in prison for changing foreign currency on the black market. (AP Photo/Yousef al- Ajely)