LIBYA. LIBYANS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BUSH'S CALL TO FREE NURSES

several hundred Libyans demonstrated in Tripoli to protest President George W. Bush's call for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for allegedly infecting 400 children with the AIDS virus.
The US and the European Union had been pressuring Libya to free the six, who were sentenced to death in May 2004 on charges they infected Libyan children with HIV-contaminated blood in an experiment to find a cure for AIDS. The protest was arranged by the Infected Children's League and included about 100 relatives of children suffering from the virus. The relatives gathered outside the UN headquarters in Tripoli as anti-riot police and ambulances stood by. The protesters, most of whom were students, chanted: "We want to get our children's rights" and "Bush supports criminal nurses." Some raised banners calling for the death sentences to be carried out.