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Libya clears torture suspects

NINE Libyan policemen and a physician were cleared yesterday of torturing five Bulgarian nurses to force them to confess to deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV. A Libyan court last year sentenced the nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for infecting 426 children in a hospital in the eastern town of Benghazi. The medics, who have been in jail since 1999, say they were forced to confess.Full Story