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15.1.2007
Bulgaria Launched You are Not Alone Campaign Supporting Libya-Jailed Medics
Download and print the banner in support of the Bulgarian medis in Lybia
Bulgaria launched Saturday an international campaign, called "You are not alone" for the saving of the sentenced to death nurses and Palestinian doctor in Libya.
The initiative for the campaign is organized with the joint efforts of the Standart Newspaper, Darik Radio, the state TV channel and bTV channel.
The idea is to appeal to all Bulgarians worldwide to be active in their efforts for the proving of innocence of the jailed medics and to show their compassion to their fate.
As a symbol of the campaign Standart newspaper will publish a ribbon with the Bulgarian flag and the word "You are not alone" inscribed on it in Bulgarian and English. The ribbon is supposed to be put on the lapels as a symbol of people's support.
The ribbon will be distributed to all Bulgarian citizens worldwide in the days before New Year's Eve.
Bulgaria's Post Services also tool part in the campaign, promising to send letters with the ribbon in the to all Bulgarians outside the country. The US Bulgaria Now, the biggest weekly issue outside country's borders, will publish the same ribbons on its pages in Chicago and other big cities.
The mayors of all cities in the country will personally hand ribbons to citizens on the major gathering spots in the night of the New Year's celebrations.
People will be able to get a ribbon from all bigger supermarkets in the country. Singers, politicians, public figures and Internet sites will appeal to all Bulgarians to wear the ribbon.
The government has also asked all leading media worldwide to put the "You are not alone" logo on the screen when they show reports on Bulgaria's EU accession celebrations.
Here you can watch video dedicated to Bulgarian nurses in Libya
Bulgaria launched Saturday an international campaign, called "You are not alone" for the saving of the sentenced to death nurses and Palestinian doctor in Libya.
The initiative for the campaign is organized with the joint efforts of the Standart Newspaper, Darik Radio, the state TV channel and bTV channel.
The idea is to appeal to all Bulgarians worldwide to be active in their efforts for the proving of innocence of the jailed medics and to show their compassion to their fate.
As a symbol of the campaign Standart newspaper will publish a ribbon with the Bulgarian flag and the word "You are not alone" inscribed on it in Bulgarian and English. The ribbon is supposed to be put on the lapels as a symbol of people's support.
The ribbon will be distributed to all Bulgarian citizens worldwide in the days before New Year's Eve.
Bulgaria's Post Services also tool part in the campaign, promising to send letters with the ribbon in the to all Bulgarians outside the country. The US Bulgaria Now, the biggest weekly issue outside country's borders, will publish the same ribbons on its pages in Chicago and other big cities.
The mayors of all cities in the country will personally hand ribbons to citizens on the major gathering spots in the night of the New Year's celebrations.
People will be able to get a ribbon from all bigger supermarkets in the country. Singers, politicians, public figures and Internet sites will appeal to all Bulgarians to wear the ribbon.
The government has also asked all leading media worldwide to put the "You are not alone" logo on the screen when they show reports on Bulgaria's EU accession celebrations.
Here you can watch video dedicated to Bulgarian nurses in Libya
Libya has sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately infecting some 400 children with HIV.
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty, claiming the accused gave patients HIV in a bid to find an Aids cure.The medics, who worked at a children's hospital in the city of Benghazi, were arrested five years ago.Bulgaria's government, which had been lobbying for their release, condemned the "unfair and absurd" verdicts.
Packed court
The Libyan court found the six health workers guilty of having caused the death of 40 children and of infecting almost 400 others with HIV.
Another Bulgarian, Dr Zdravko Georgiev, was initially reported to have received the death penalty but has in fact been given a four-year sentence and may be released soon, Bulgaria's ambassador to Libya said.
Nine Libyans who worked at the same hospital were acquitted. The courtroom in Benghazi was surrounded by 100 armed police, Bulgaria's BTA news agency reported. Inside it was packed to capacity, with 15 foreign diplomats among those attending the session which was the culmination of a trial stopped and started several times over the years.
At one point, the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, had accused the health workers of acting on orders from the CIA and the Israeli secret service, Mossad. Libya later rowed back on this allegation.
The medics had always protested their innocence and said they had been tortured by the police, with daily beatings, sexual assault and electric shocks. They called expert witnesses, including one of the team which discovered the Aids virus, who said this was an epidemic caused by poor hygiene at the hospital, not by any international conspiracy.
Relatives celebrate
Western diplomats say the prosecutions arose because the authorities simply needed someone to blame for a tragedy which caused outrage in Libya. With Col Gaddafi recently moving to improve Libya's international standing, Bulgaria had hoped the court would be lenient.
"I'm shocked by the verdicts...We're not going to accept them," said Bulgarian Justice Minister Anton Stankov.
The government in Sofia is calling for a strong reaction from the international community. The European Union has already voiced its extreme concern. Bulgaria's parliamentary speaker, Ognyan Gerdzhikov, said he was confident the death sentences would not be carried out.
"I expect Gaddafi to act like a humanist to win certain political credit, which he needs from public opinion," he told Bulgarian radio.
But relatives of the infected children were celebrating.
"The verdict is fair. What they did is a crime against humanity. They planted a bomb inside our children," Ramdane Ali Mohamed, whose sister died of Aids, told Reuters.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty, claiming the accused gave patients HIV in a bid to find an Aids cure.The medics, who worked at a children's hospital in the city of Benghazi, were arrested five years ago.Bulgaria's government, which had been lobbying for their release, condemned the "unfair and absurd" verdicts.
Packed court
The Libyan court found the six health workers guilty of having caused the death of 40 children and of infecting almost 400 others with HIV.
Another Bulgarian, Dr Zdravko Georgiev, was initially reported to have received the death penalty but has in fact been given a four-year sentence and may be released soon, Bulgaria's ambassador to Libya said.
Nine Libyans who worked at the same hospital were acquitted. The courtroom in Benghazi was surrounded by 100 armed police, Bulgaria's BTA news agency reported. Inside it was packed to capacity, with 15 foreign diplomats among those attending the session which was the culmination of a trial stopped and started several times over the years.
At one point, the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, had accused the health workers of acting on orders from the CIA and the Israeli secret service, Mossad. Libya later rowed back on this allegation.
The medics had always protested their innocence and said they had been tortured by the police, with daily beatings, sexual assault and electric shocks. They called expert witnesses, including one of the team which discovered the Aids virus, who said this was an epidemic caused by poor hygiene at the hospital, not by any international conspiracy.
Relatives celebrate
Western diplomats say the prosecutions arose because the authorities simply needed someone to blame for a tragedy which caused outrage in Libya. With Col Gaddafi recently moving to improve Libya's international standing, Bulgaria had hoped the court would be lenient.
"I'm shocked by the verdicts...We're not going to accept them," said Bulgarian Justice Minister Anton Stankov.
The government in Sofia is calling for a strong reaction from the international community. The European Union has already voiced its extreme concern. Bulgaria's parliamentary speaker, Ognyan Gerdzhikov, said he was confident the death sentences would not be carried out.
"I expect Gaddafi to act like a humanist to win certain political credit, which he needs from public opinion," he told Bulgarian radio.
But relatives of the infected children were celebrating.
"The verdict is fair. What they did is a crime against humanity. They planted a bomb inside our children," Ramdane Ali Mohamed, whose sister died of Aids, told Reuters.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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