Mutual Interests To Prevent Relations Breakdown

January 2007 | Political Risk Analysis

Relations between Libya and the EU have become increasingly strained over the long-running controversial case of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for deliberately infecting over 430 children with HIV in Libya. Death sentences followed a guilty verdict, which was again reached on December 19 last year, after the Supreme Court had thrown out an original court ruling and demanded a retrial. The nurses, along with a Palestinian doctor, continue to protest their innocence, claiming they were forced to confess under duress. While the EU, UN and US have all consistently condemned the trials, Brussels' role has now grown in

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