Libya asks Arab League to condemn Bulgaria’s medics pardon
The six medics were freed and flown to Bulgaria. The above photo shows they arrive at Sofia airport.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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Libya has "submitted a memorandum to the Arab League and demanded a review of the Arab position with regard to Bulgaria," Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul-Rahman Mohammad Shalgam told reporters in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
The Libyan government will also seek support from the African Union and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, he said, denouncing Bulgaria's pardoning of the medics as "betrayal" and "illegal."
The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian citizenship had been jailed in Libya since 1999 and were sentenced to death for deliberately causing an HIV outbreak at a Benghazi hospital by infecting 426 children with the AIDS-causing virus.
Their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment on July 17, and they were sent to Bulgaria on Tuesday under a deal allowing them to serve their life sentences there following mediation by France and the European Union, of which Bulgaria is a member.
But Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov granted them a presidential pardon immediately after their arrival in Bulgaria on Tuesday, arousing strong protest from the Libyan government and the victims' families.
Libya protests Bulgaria's decision to pardon medics
TUNIS, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The families of the Libyan children demanded Interpol re-arrest the medics convicted of infecting the children, one day after the six were released and returned to Bulgaria, reports reaching here from Tripoli said on Wednesday.
The Libyan Association for the Families of HIV-Infected Children said in a statement that they condemned and resented the recklessness of Bulgaria for pardoning the six medics and demanded Interpol re-arrest them and make them spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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