THE trial in Libya of six Bulgarians accused of deliberately infecting 393 Libyan children with the HIV virus was adjourned on Sunday for the twelfth time, Bulgarian state television reported. The court, responding to Deputy Foreign Minister Marin Raikov’s request for a “transparent, objective, depoliticised and fair” trial, decided that witnesses would be called to the bar during the next hearing, on June 12, the report said. Five Bulgarian nurses and one doctor who worked in a paediatrics hospital in Bednghazi, in northern Libya, are charged with injecting 393 children in their care with HIV-infected blood products. Over 20 of the children are already dead, prosecutors claim. The medics stand accused of “premeditated murder in order to undermine Libyan security”, and could face the death penalty if found guilty. All declare they are innocent. – AFP