Libya Frees Foreign Medical Workers

This is good news. I'm happy for them. Background here and here.

The latest at Kos and CBS.

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Libya Lifts Death Sentence Against Foreign Medical Workers

From NYT. Some history here.














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Libya Lifts H.I.V. Case Death Sentence

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said Tuesday.

The ruling came after the families of the children each received $1 million and agreed to drop their demand for the execution of the six, who deny having infected more than 400 children and say their confessions were extracted under torture.
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Libya: Execute foreign health workers

Here's my post from a few months ago regarding the health workers tortured, and apparently to be executed by Libya for, well I'm not sure what for.
Because they can?










Here's an update on this from Daily Kos.

This Wednesday afternoon, as a representative from the U.S. Department of Commerce takes the stage to give a talk titled "Doing Business with US Companies", Valya Chervenyashka, Snezana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Kristiana Valceva, and Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a sit in their cells.

In those cells they have been tortured, beaten, electrocuted through their tongues, breasts, and genitals, and raped. The American company Booz Allen Hamilton based in McLean, Virginia donated about $13,000 to help sponsor the conference to bring more foreign workers to Libya.

The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor went to Libya in 1998. The symposium this week is meant to "bring much needed technology and expertise to Libya." One year after arriving in Libya, the doctor and nurses were imprisoned on false charges and have been held in jail for the last seven years. They were sentenced to death by firing squad.

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