European FMs Discuss Bulgarian Nurses Fate
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Politics: 3 September 2004, Friday. The fate of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya will be one of the topics discussed by foreign ministers from the EU member and candidate countries.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- A settlement has been reached to resolve the crisis over five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus, a foundation headed by the Libyan leader's son said yesterday .
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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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Bulgarian parliament speaker Ognian Guerdjikov called on European Union legislatures to help save five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a scandal over AIDS-tainted blood.
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Bulgaria's foreign minister said Friday that negotiations were taking place with the families of Libyan children with HIV, but he cautioned that a deal to allow the release of six medics convicted of infecting them was far from being reached.
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Libya&#39;s top legal body was to meet on Monday to decide whether to confirm or annul death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, possibly the final stage in a case that has dragged on for eight years.
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Libya listed three conditions under which it is prepared to drop charges against five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death on suspect charges of spreading AIDS.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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Sofia protesta per sentenza infermiere, Ue 'scioccata'
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Politics: 31 August 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's authorities are trying to speed up the transfer of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya from the Judeyda prison to the special building build for ...
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Libya's Supreme Court will hear an appeal next week by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus, Bulgaria said on Friday.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV plan to seek compensation from Tripoli for illegal arrest and torture, Bulgaria's justice minister said Monday.
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BiH Foreign Affairs Minister Mladen Ivanic and Estonian Foreign Affairs Minister Kristina Ojuland discussed in Talin today the current political situation in both countries, the situation in the Balkans and ...
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Libya has asked for normalized  relations with the European Union in talks over releasing six  foreign medics jailed for infecting hundreds of children with  HIV, an official source in Libya said on Monday.
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Five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death in Libya on charges of spreading AIDS want to sue the northern African country for &quot;unlawful arrest&quot; and torture.
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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could re-examined.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya have been moved to a special facility in their prison, the Trud newspaper reported Thursday.