'Aids' families get compensation
17/07/2007 12:19  - (SA)  

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Tripoli - The families of Libyan children infected with the Aids virus said on Tuesday that they had started receiving compensation, a move that could result in a reprieve for six foreign medics convicted in the case.

The news came as Libya's top body was to meet on Tuesday to decide whether to uphold, modify or annul the death sentence against the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor that was confirmed by the supreme court last week.

The families' spokesperson Idriss Lagha said: "The families received their cheques overnight and started to cash them this morning."

The Gaddafi Foundation involved in mediating a resolution to the case had said the families had agreed to compensation of about $1m a child.

The medics, who had been behind bars since 1999, were convicted of deliberately injecting 438 children with HIV-tainted blood, but Lagha had said the number of victims had risen to about 460 with several mothers now infected.

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