Tripoli Promises Better Conditions for Bulgarian Convicts

Politics | September 21, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00

Libya's foreign minister has pledged Tuesday that prison cell conditions for the five Bulgarian nurses would see an improvement.

Minister Abd al-Rahman Shalgam met with Bulgarian counterpart Solomon Passy on that day. The two met in New York and talked in private for almost an hour.

Both Passy and Shalgam agreed that EU assistance should be used for resolving the medics problem.

In May, Libyan court sentenced the five Bulgarian women to death over deliberate HIV infection of 400 children. The nurses, who had pleaded innocent, are still awaiting the hearing of their appeals.

The first trial lingered for more than five years.

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