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More than 8 years five Bulgarian nurces and a Palestinian doctor are hostages in Libyan prison. On 6th May 2004 a Libyan court has sentenced to death Cristiana Valcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka, Snejana Dimitrova and Ashraf Ahmad Djum’a al-Hadjudj for infecting more than 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus in an attempt to find a cure for the disease. You are not alone!

The confessions used by the prosecution had been extracted under torture. The Expert witnesses have testified that the virus was rampant in the Benghazi hospital where the children were infected before the workers began working there in the late 1990s. There is overwhelming evidence that the children in the Libyan hospital were infected with the virus due to poor hygienical conditions and long before the sentenced medics arrived in Libya. However, the Libyan judicial authorities did not consider this evidence during the 5-year trial. The European Union, the United States State Department, Amnesty International, various national governments and international organisations have already expressed serious concerns over the fairness of the trial and denounced the verdicts. Support has been expressed to ensure that the appealing of the sentence would lead to a quick release of these innocent people. On December 19, 2006, the court pronounced its verdict in the retrial, all six were guilty, and again sentenced to death by firing squad. The tragedy with the death sentences of the Benghazi Six united three of Bulgaria’s leading media - Standart, bTV and Darik, who started the international humanitarian campaign YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Support the campaign here: http://nestesami.bg/ Wikipedia information about the HIV trial in Libya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_trial_in_Libya Freedom for the medics in Libya!

Тагове: aids, human, libya, people

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