TRIPOLI, July 16 (Reuters) - Libya's top judiciary body has put off until Tuesday a decision on the fate of six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV. "The High Judicial Council has put off its decision on the items left from its schedule until tomorrow morning (Tuesday)," state news agency Jana reported, quoting council sources. Jana did not mention the case of the six medics as one of the scheduled items but lawyers and officials have said the council was due to rule on it. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were imprisoned in Libya eight years ago and sentenced to die for infecting 426 Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS while working at a children's hospital in the city of Benghazi. Libya's Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentences, placing the medics' fate in the hands of the High Judicial Council, which is controlled by the government and has the power to commute sentences or issue pardons.
