Medics home after eight years in Libyan prison

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria today after eight and a half years in prison in Libya.

Medics home after eight years in Libyan prison
Tue, 24 Jul, 2007 - 09:23

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria today after eight and a half years in prison in Libya.

The medics, sentenced to life in prison in Libya for contaminating children with the Aids virus, arrived on board a plane with French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy and the EU’s commissioner for foreign affairs, Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

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