Libya has paid funds to more than half the families of Libyan children with HIV under a deal that could free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them, a spokesperson for the families said on Tuesday. The financial settlement may bring to a close the eight-year legal case surrounding the medics and the children.
Libya’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, a judge said. ”The court rejects the appeals of the defendants and confirms the death penalty,” judge Fathi Dhan told a five-minute hearing.
Libya’s Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus following a report of a deal for their release. The highly politicised case of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor has blocked Libya’s efforts to deepen links to the West.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi defended his 30-year-old unique system of rule based on grass-roots government on Wednesday, saying Western-style democracy was not appropriate for Africa. ”All people must manage their country according to the cultural and social environment,” Gaddafi said in a speech in the town of Sebha.
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/ 23 November 2006
Migration is an age-old fact of life that governments must accept if they want to manage the flow of job-seekers moving from Africa to Europe, Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi told an Africa-Europe conference on migration. ”Action against nature is like rowing against the stream, which leads to failure,” Gadaffi told African and European interior ministers.
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/ 21 November 2006
European and African nations struggling to stem an exodus of migrants from Africa gather in Libya on Wednesday to tackle a problem with the potential to hurt economies and stir communal tensions on both continents. The focus will be on identifying long-term solutions such as creating more jobs in Africa to curb its ”brain drain” and widening opportunities for legal migration.
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/ 20 November 2006
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi accused the West on Sunday of trying to grab Sudan’s oil wealth with its plan to send United Nations troops to Darfur and urged Khartoum to reject them. The United Nations and the African Union have been pressing Sudan to accept a UN-led peacekeeping force in Darfur to halt three years of violence that has killed tens of thousands.
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/ 5 September 2006
The retrial of six foreign medics accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes Aids was adjourned to October on Tuesday after a defence lawyer failed to show up at court. ”The court held a very brief session and swiftly postponed the trial to October 12 because the lawyer of the Palestinian doctor was absent,” said lawyer Abdallah al Maghribi.