Monday, May 14, 2007

Bulgarians pray for medics release

Bulgarians pray for release of medics (AP)

Bulgarian  priests walk during a mass in support of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya, in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Saturday, May, 12, 2007. The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor have been in jail since February 1999, accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV at a hospital in Benghazi. Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, the spiritual leader of the Balkan country's Orthodox Christians, conducted Saturday a public prayer for the rescue of six medics sentenced to death in Libya.  (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)AP - The spiritual leader of Bulgaria's Orthodox Christians on Saturday called for a "just verdict" in the case of six medics sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting about 400 children with HIV.


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