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Bulgarian nurses fear prison murder in Libya
Five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death by a Libyan court for spreading an HIV epidemic among Libyan children fear they will be murdered in jail as they wait to appeal their verdicts, Bulgarian media reported yesterday. A court in the port city of Benghazi on Thursday sentenced the five women and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately infecting 426 children with the virus believed to cause Aids.The EU and the United States condemned the verdicts, fuelling speculation in Sofia that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is in the midst of a campaign to mend ties with the West, could pardon the six. The nurses said they had been told they would be moved from Benghazi to Tripoli pending their appeal. They expressed fears that they might be murdered by other inmates if moved to one prison in the Libyan capital where they had already served time. They said they had received death threats there. The nurses were speaking by telephone from prison. Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-05-08 |
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