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Death sentence lifted for Libya HIV medics
Last Updated: 2007-07-18 11:29
2007-07-18
TRIPOLI, Libya. The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, a top Libyan official said yesterday.
The ruling came after the families of the children each received $1 million and agreed to drop their demand for the execution of the six, who deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture.
Libya’s Supreme Court had upheld the six medics’ death sentences last week, but the Judiciary Council meeting late yesterday is a government body that can overrule the court.
Libya is under intense international pressure to free the medical workers. 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. The official who confirmed that the sentences had been commuted spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the council had not yet made its decision public.
“Thank God the death sentences were dropped. This is at least some relief that they are not going to be executed,” said Zdravko Georgiev, the husband of Kristiana Valcheva, one of the jailed nurses.
“But I cannot make any forecast how long the upcoming procedures will last,” the husband said in radio interview from Tripoli.
Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor, Kamen Mihov, said requests would be made today to have the medics leave Libya shortly. They have been jailed since 1999.
TRIPOLI, Libya. The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, a top Libyan official said yesterday.
The ruling came after the families of the children each received $1 million and agreed to drop their demand for the execution of the six, who deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture.
Libya’s Supreme Court had upheld the six medics’ death sentences last week, but the Judiciary Council meeting late yesterday is a government body that can overrule the court.
Libya is under intense international pressure to free the medical workers. 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. The official who confirmed that the sentences had been commuted spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the council had not yet made its decision public.
“Thank God the death sentences were dropped. This is at least some relief that they are not going to be executed,” said Zdravko Georgiev, the husband of Kristiana Valcheva, one of the jailed nurses.
“But I cannot make any forecast how long the upcoming procedures will last,” the husband said in radio interview from Tripoli.
Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor, Kamen Mihov, said requests would be made today to have the medics leave Libya shortly. They have been jailed since 1999.
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