Bulgarian Medics in Libya "In Grave Psychic Condition"
Politics | February 18, 2006, SaturdayA French lawyer has called for the immediate release of the five Bulgarian medics jailed in Libya because of their "grave psychological condition".
During a three-day visit to Tripoli, Emanuel Altit and his colleague Ivan Panef visited the medics for about an hour.
They have spent in jail for seven years, Altit reminded after the meeting. Though the revocation of their death sentences in December, the medics are seriously troubled in the face of another endless period of trials, the French lawyer said.
Yet, Altit interpreted as a sign of good will by Libyan authorities the permission he was given to visit the jailed medics.
He was scheduled also to meet Libya's justice minister, but the meeting was cancelled arguing with the wave of protests in Benghazi over the row with cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
Families of over 400 Libyan children with HIV have asked for EUR 4.4 B from donors.
Libya's supreme court overturned death sentences against the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor last month, but they still face a retrial and could be re-condemned for deliberately infecting the children.
Seeking to end this standoff, donors from Bulgaria, its EU and US allies, and the Qaddafi Charity Foundation, a charity run by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam, formed a fund to organise aid for the children.
During a three-day visit to Tripoli, Emanuel Altit and his colleague Ivan Panef visited the medics for about an hour.
They have spent in jail for seven years, Altit reminded after the meeting. Though the revocation of their death sentences in December, the medics are seriously troubled in the face of another endless period of trials, the French lawyer said.
Yet, Altit interpreted as a sign of good will by Libyan authorities the permission he was given to visit the jailed medics.
He was scheduled also to meet Libya's justice minister, but the meeting was cancelled arguing with the wave of protests in Benghazi over the row with cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
Families of over 400 Libyan children with HIV have asked for EUR 4.4 B from donors.
Libya's supreme court overturned death sentences against the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor last month, but they still face a retrial and could be re-condemned for deliberately infecting the children.
Seeking to end this standoff, donors from Bulgaria, its EU and US allies, and the Qaddafi Charity Foundation, a charity run by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam, formed a fund to organise aid for the children.
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