comenta a respeito...
Alguém tem acompanhado essa história?
http://www.ce-review.org/01/18/bulgarianews18.html
Lybia trial adjourned
A court in Libya has adjourned for the 12th time the trial in which six
Bulgarians and a Palestinian are accused of deliberately infecting hundreds
of children with the HIV virus. "The hearing was suspended until 2 June to
satisfy lawyers' demands for more questioning of the defendants and to
allow doctors to examine some of the accused," said Judge Ibrahim Lajnaf.
The defendants, among which five Bulgarian nurses and one doctor, were
arrested more than two years ago; it is alleged they injected nearly 400
children at a hospital in the city of Benghazi with contaminated blood
products. All of them deny the charges but could face the death penalty if
convicted.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi recently said that injecting the children had
been part of a foreign conspiracy against his country. "This case is a
horrible crime. It is a catastrophe," he said, adding that some of the
defendants had confessed to being employed by the American CIA and Israel's
Mossad secret service. The case has caused widespread concern in Bulgaria,
where the government has pressed for independent medical evidence to be
considered.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/050531121342.9ajn5ohu
EU hails Libyan delay in AIDS case rulingDocument Actions 31/05/2005
The European Commission welcomed Tuesday a delay in a Libyan court ruling
on six foreign medics facing death over an AIDS-tainted blood tragedy, but
called for a final decision "as a matter of urgency."
EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who visited
Tripoli last week, underlined the need for a speedy ruling because of the
condition of the six defendants.
"I welcome this decision. It indicates that the Libyan supreme court
accepts that the original trial needs additional consideration and that the
death sentence ... cannot be confirmed," she said.
Of the six medics -- five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, she
said: "It is clear to me that they are under great psychological pressure
and cannot go on very much longer.
"After more than six years in jail it's imperative that a just solution be
found as a matter of urgency."
The six were condemned in 2004 on charges of injecting 380 children with
blood transfusions infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Forty-seven of those children have died.
The accused maintain their innocence. Two nurses and the doctor initially
confessed to charges but later said police had extracted the confessions
with torture, including beatings and electric shocks.
Washington and the European Union have been pressuring Libya over the case,
which has strained relations between Sofia and Tripoli just as Moamer
Kadhafi's regime is returning to the international fold after years of
isolation.
In Libya Tuesday Judge Ali al-Allush said the case had been put back to
November 15, but gave no further details.
His decision follows a weekend visit to Libya by Bulgarian President Georgi
Parvanov to plead for the lives of the five convicted Bulgarian nurses and
a Palestinian doctor.
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, speaking at a meeting with EU
counterparts in Luxembourg, also welcomed the court delay -- and forecast
that the imprisoned medics could be released after the November "We have
the reading that the court is starting (to listen) more carefully to the
arguments of the defence," he said.
"We believe this postponement will be the last one. We hope so ... We hope
to have our people back in Bulgaria this year. What is important for us is
that this case remains to be a priority in the relations between the EU and
Libya."
Lamento pela mensagem triste, mas estou perturbado pela falta de
visibilidade dessas atrocidades.
Posso estar enganado, mas, sem saber nada, só de imaginar o desespero de
quem aceita um contrato de trabalho não só longe de casa, mas na Líbia,
tenho certeza que são tão inocentes quanto os seus colegas líbios.
Um abraço,
Roberto Fiszman
HUCFF UFRJ
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