Libya says that it will not bow to international pressure over death sentences passed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor.
The group were sentenced by a court in Tripoli for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
The sentences have drawn international criticism, while academic bodies have argued that the guilty verdicts run counter to scientific evidence.
But Libya's foreign minister said it was now up to Libya's Supreme Court.
"Libya will never deal with such pressure from any side - from America, from Europe, from anywhere," Abdurrahman Shalgham said.
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