EU urges Libya to annul death sentence for foreign medics

The European Union today urged Libya to free the Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV after a Libyan court decided to reimpose their death sentences.

“It is my strong hope that the concerned Libyan authorities will take the necessary measures to review and annul the death sentence, and open the way to an early resolution of the case on a humanitarian basis,” EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a letter to the Libyan foreign ministry.