BBC: Hopes are rising that the six foreign medical staff condemned to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV may be freed as part of a financial settlement with the families of the children.
The medics, who all proclaim their innocence, were arrested eight years ago after an outbreak of HIV at a paediatric hospital in Benghazi.
A Libyan court has cleared nine policemen and a doctor of torturing the foreign workers into signing confessions.
All six are Bulgarian citizens with one, an Egyptian-born Palestinian, given citizenship in June 2007.
Sofia-based journalist Virginia Savova looks at each of their cases for the BBC News website. Profiles: The imprisoned medics (more)
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