Libya to Free Bulgaria's Nurses for Cash
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Top news: 5 December 2004, Sunday. Libya is ready to discuss the possible repealing of the death sentences of the five Bulgarian nurses but only after Bulgaria offers financial compensations.
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Bulgaria said it hoped Libya would finalise a deal on Monday to free six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, a move that would boost Tripoli's relations with the West.
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Libya has said it will discuss reversing the death penalty for five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting children with HIV if Bulgaria offers compensation.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a partnership deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could re-examined.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday under a deal to improve Tripoli's ties with the European Union.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for allegedly infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV-contaminated blood will be spared, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Thursday.
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Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.
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Bulgaria donated $56.6 million in  Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal  that led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting  Libyan children with HIV.
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"The indemnities are financed by international contributions in the form of debt remission"  Several eastern European countries would forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.The six foreign medics have been sentenced to death in the case, and Libyan officials have said a settlement could pave the way for their release.Jailed since 1999, the six deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture. Experts and outside scientific reports have said the children were contaminated as a result of unhygienic conditions at a hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi. Fifty of the infected children died. Read more
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison.
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Politics: 18 October 2004, Monday. The five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya could only provisionally count on the support of the European officials, Switzerland's Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.
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SOFIA (bnn)- Five Bulgarian nurses, whom Libya has sentenced to death for allegedly causing an AIDS outbreak at a childrenâs hospital, will likely sue the Arab state for illegally arresting and torturing them, an official said Monday.
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Six foreign medics jailed for life in Libya for infecting children with the AIDS virus were freed and flown to Bulgaria on Tuesday, after the European Union pledged to improve ties with Tripoli.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Grancharova said her government believes the nurses are innocent and that such a payment could be seen as buying their freedom and an admission of guilt.
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Bulgaria said Tuesday it has granted citizenship to a Palestinian doctor on trial in Tripoli along with five Bulgarian nurses for infecting children in Libya with AIDS.