Human rights NGO Amnesty International appealed for the freedom of the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian medic accused of intentional HIV infection in Libya.

Amnesty said as quoted by Darik Radio that Libya denied the medics the right of a fair trial.

The organisation pointed out that the evidence for intentional HIV infection is insufficient and that gives reasons to think that the medics were unjustly accused.

Amnesty International said that it had sent a letter to Libyan justice minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Ajleil expressing its concern over the death sentences.

The medics were tortured into making confessions, the lawyers of the medics were denied the right to visit their clients and the Libyan court refused the international specialists to testify in court, Amnesty said.

Amnesty International also said that the Libyan court should take into consideration new evidence from 2006 for the innocence of the medics.

The new evidence confirmed the conclusions of international AIDS specialists Vittorio Collizi and Luc Montagnier that the case was an inner-hospital infection and occurred before the medics came to Libya.