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Libyan ordeal ends: medics freed

Plane takes medical workers to a pardon in Bulgaria.

A French government aircraft carrying six medical workers convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV touched down in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 24 July, ending their 8-year ordeal in a Libyan prison.

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