Dutch court compensates Palestinian for Libya jail

A Dutch court has awarded one million Euros ($1.33 million) in compensation to a Palestinian doctor tortured and jailed for eight years in Libya along with five Bulgarian nurses for purportedly infecting children with the AIDS virus.

Ashraf al-Hazouz and the Bulgarians, who were pardoned and freed in 2007, have said their convictions were based on forced confessions. (AP)