A policeman listens to a verdict under the portrait of ancient Kazakh judge Aiteke Bi in a court in Shymkent June 27, 2007. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Police escort health workers after the announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

A doctor helps a relative of a baby infected with HIV/AIDS after the announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Police escort a health worker after the announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Police escort a relative of a jailed health worker after the announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

A doctor helps a relative of a baby infected with HIV/AIDS after the announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Relatives of babies infected with HIV/AIDS scuffle with the police after announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

A relative of a baby infected with HIV/AIDS scuffles with the police after announcement of a verdict in Shymkent June 27, 2007. A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Judge Ziyadinkhan Pirniyaz holds documents as he sits under the Kazakh national flag in a court in the southern town of Shymkent June 26, 2007. Twenty one Kazakh doctors and health officials went on trial in January on charges of criminal negligence over the infection of dozens of toddlers with HIV/AIDS. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

A policeman guards health workers standing under a portrait of 18th century judge Kazybek Bi in a court in the southern town of Shymkent June 26, 2007. Twenty one Kazakh doctors and health officials went on trial in January on charges of criminal negligence over the infection of dozens of toddlers with HIV/AIDS. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Police guard health workers in a court in the southern Kazakh town of Shymkent June 26, 2007. Twenty one Kazakh doctors and health officials went on trial in January on charges of criminal negligence over the infection of dozens of toddlers with HIV/AIDS. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Policewoman escorts a health worker charged with negligence to a court in southern town of Shymkent June 26, 2007. Twenty one Kazakh doctors and health officials went on trial in January on charges of criminal negligence over the infection of dozens of toddlers with HIV/AIDS. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN) 

Judge Ziyadinkhan Pirniyaz (R) walks past a group of health workers charged with negligence in a court in the southern Kazakh town of Shymkent June 26, 2007. Twenty one Kazakh doctors and health officials went on trial in January on charges of criminal negligence over the infection of dozens of toddlers with HIV/AIDS. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN)