Libya Bulgarian Medics

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Title: "LIBYA COUNTERS INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS TO TRIAL OF BULGARIA'S NURSES"
Source: Sofiaecho
Date: 29 Dec 2006

To counter international pressure for a positive outcome in the trial of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death, Libya turned for help to its neighbouring countries and supporters.

Libya’s foreign ministry worked on a declaration elaborating the nurses’ trial. The Bulgarians and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death on December 19 on charges of intentional mass HIV infection in the town of Benghazi.

The declaration was addressed to the secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), to all Arab, Asian and Latin American countries that Libya has diplomatic relations with, to the UN and the European Commission, Focus news agency reported.

In the declaration, Libya presented the trial, as seen in the country. The foreign ministry underlined that the process was just and all evidence used to establish the guilt of the medics was authentic.

Libya also protests against the sharp international reactions and the calls for freeing the medics.

Shortly after receiving the document OIC responded that it believed in the fairness of the Libyan judiciary.