The proposal tabled by Sofia Mayor Boyko Borissov envisions that all illumination, Christmas decoration and advertisements go dark from 7 pm to 7:05 pm to express Bulgarians' protest against this injustice. For the eighth year in a row five Bulgarian medics meet Christmas in jail. And just on Monday, they heard for the second time that they are sentenced to death by a firing squad. This decision has plunged the trial into a non-ending ordeal.
The episode began in February 1998 when the nurses arrived to take up jobs in Lybia. Soon after they arrived, children at the hospital began testing positive for HIV. And that is when authorities realized they had a major problem. An investigation concluded that the infections came from the wards where the Bulgarian nurses had been assigned. The Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were arrested on charges for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the virus. The nurses say they were tortured into confessing their guilt. But international experts concluded that the virus appreared before the nurses’ arrival and was probably spread by contaminated needles.
Currently Bulgaria and the International community are working together to get the nurses out of there. They have been sitting in a prison for 8 years now, and it will continue to take time to resolve this issue.
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