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 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Antoaneta Uzunova waits in anguish to hear if her mother and five other health care workers will face a Libyan firing squad for their convictions in the HIV infections of more than 400 children at a Libyan hospital.
A Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses, including Uzunova's mother, face a hearing Tuesday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in their appeal of the May 2004 conviction on charges they intentionally infected the children with HIV-contaminated blood in an experiment to find a cure for AIDS.
The United States and European Union have been pressuring Libya to free the six, and international observers say the charges were contrived and extracted by torture.
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