Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2006. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2006. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia - December 20, 2006
The court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday, saying they deliberately infected 426 children with the HIV virus at a hospital in the late 1990s.
"The sentence ... raises some very serious questions and I agree with those who think it is exceedingly cruel," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a Moscow news conference.
Lavrov said he had already urged the Libyan leadership to show mercy, adding: "I do not know what scope there is in Libyan legislation for saving these people's lives but it goes without saying that I am calling precisely for that."
The medics deny infecting the children, more than 50 of whom have since died.
Bulgaria, the European Union and Amnesty International criticised the verdict on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she hoped the medics would be allowed to return home at the earliest possible date.
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