The ordeal is finally over

Sofia, 24/30 July 2007

After eight and a half years spent in prisons in Libya, five Bulgarian nurses, Dr. Zdravko Georgiev, the husband of one of the nurses, and Palestinian Dr. Ashraf al-Hazouz, who has Bulgarian citizenship, were brought home to Bulgaria by European External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy.