More than half of 426 Libyan families of children with HIV have already received compensation money in a deal paving the way for the release of six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting the children.
A spokesman said a deal is to be announced when all the families have received payments.
Libya's High Judicial Council is to meet today to consider the case of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian citizenship.
Libya's Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentences against the medical workers, who are accused of intentionally starting an HIV epidemic at a children's hospital. But the government-controlled High Judicial Council has the power to commute the sentences or pardon the medics.
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