Libya to consider freeing Bulgarian nurses
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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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Nearly a decade after their arrest, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were finally freed by Libya--which once again proved itself a cunning diplomatic player.
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Bulgaria said it was hopeful of an agreement with Libyan authorities on Monday that would pave the way for the release of six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV.
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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 on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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U.S. President George Bush said in an interview aired on Friday he hoped the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV would soon be freed.
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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&#39;s relations with the West.
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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could be re-examined.
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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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Relatives of the Bulgarian nurses given life sentences in Libya were waiting for them early Tuesday at Sofia airport hoping for their return, Bulgarian national radio reported.
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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.
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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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Libya&#39;s top legal body meets on Tuesday to decide whether to uphold or revoke death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, with a compensation deal for victims likely to win them a reprieve.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 11 -- President Bush pledged to help U.S. ally Bulgaria win the release of five Bulgarian nurses held in Libya since 1999 on charges of infecting Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS.
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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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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 on Tuesday commuted death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV, raising hopes they would soon be freed after eight years in jail.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- A Tripoli Criminal Court acquitted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor yesterday on charges of slander. The medics were accused of making false accusations that Libyan officials had tortured them to extract confessions in an investigation into HIV infections at Benghazi Children's Hospital where they worked.