Twenty Thousand Demonstrate For Death Row Bulgaria Nurses

[lligrd]

Twenty thousand demonstrate for death row Bulgaria nurses 27 minutes ago


SOFIA (AFP) - Around twenty thousand Bulgarians demonstrated their solidarity in Sofia with five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in a Libyan AIDS case.

A major rally marking the eighth anniversary of their arrest under the slogan "You are not alone" passed along Sofia's central boulevards before an open-air prayer outside the Alexander Nevski Cathedral in the evening.

The demonstrators, estimated at about 20,000 people by the police, shouted "Freedom! Freedom!" under slogans reading "The whole world should see the truth," "Freedom," and "Innocent".

Six children of different religions - Christian Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim, Armenian, Jewish and Evangelist - pronounced the text of a mass prayer about the release of the six foreign medical workers before symbolically setting free six doves.

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[Herman74]

1. What negotiator could liberate the nurses & doctor?

Could Jesse Jackson get them out? He's had success before in negotiating for captives' freedom.

Ultimately, I don't think that they shall be executed. But freedom for the nurses & doctor will take a while.

[lligrd]

5. I Don't Know But He Sure Could Try

Somebody needs to try.

[Herman74]

2. With Bulgaria now a member of the EU, perhaps that organization

...can bring some pressure to bear on Libya.

I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing started because of prevailing, misguided opinions on the ease at which AIDS is spread. And now, sadly, six people who tried to help others (stay healthy) have now been cruelly given 8 years of hell in return.

But i think they will be free eventually.

[Herman74]

3. In keeping Innocent People at Guantanamo (the Chinese Uighurs)

...we Americans are, alas, on the same moral plane as Libya because of Bush.

[Herman74]

4. By the way, Iligrid, I like your post, and I like Einstein too...

...I have just soooooooo many biographies on Einstein, and recently bought the book, "E=Einstein."

[lligrd]

6. Thanks Herman

We certainly could use Einstein today.