LIBYA: EU Urges Libya to Annul Death Sentence for Foreign Medics

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LIBYA: EU Urges Libya to Annul Death Sentence for Foreign Medics

Associated Press (12.28.06) - Friday, December 29, 2006

On Thursday, the European Union urged Libya to free the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of infecting children with HIV after their death sentences were re-imposed by a Libyan court. "It is my strong hope that . Libyan authorities will take the necessary measures to review and annul the death sentence," Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU external affairs commissioner, said in a letter to the Libyan foreign ministry. The six have been in jail since 1999 on charges that they intentionally spread HIV among 400 children in a Benghazi hospital. Scientific evidence suggests the children had HIV before the health workers arrived, and Ferrero-Waldner said she hoped the Supreme Court would take that evidence into consideration.
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