A special Easter mass has been served by a Greek priest at the Tripoli Judeyda prison for the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya.

Bulgaria's Ambassador to Libya Zdravko Velev told the Bulgarian National Television that doctor Zdravko Georgiev, who was acquitted by a Benghazi court last May, was allowed to visit the his wife Kristyana and the other four nurses.

The women talked on the diplomats' cell phones with their relatives in Bulgaria.

In May 2004, Libya found the five Bulgarian health workers and a Palestinian doctor guilty of having caused the death of 40 children and of infecting almost 400 others with HIV at a Benghazi hospital.

The nurses were sentenced to death by a firing squad, sparkling cries of foul from Bulgaria and its allies the United States and the European Union.

The medics' confessions, which were extracted with torture, is the only evidence proving their guilt.

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