The death sentences on six foreign medical personnel convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison.
Relatives of the 438 children had earlier dropped their demand for the death penalty, after accepting compensation worth $1m per child.
Libya's High Judicial Council is expected to confirm the new sentences.
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were found guilty of starting an HIV epidemic in the 1990s. They say they are innocent.
However, Libya's Supreme Court last week upheld their 2004 death sentences, placing the medics fate with the High Judicial Council.
The council, a semi-political body, has the power to commute sentences or issue pardons.
