The Palestinian doctor, who has just been released by Libya, will be reunited with his family in the Netherlands next week, reported expatica.com on Tuesday.
The doctor, Ashraf al-Hazouz, was imprisoned for more than eight years along with five Bulgarian nurses on suspicion of having deliberately infected 400 Libyan children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Libya but were transferred to Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday. They were immediately pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.
Al-Hazouz, who had been granted Bulgarian citizenship, will come to the Netherlands to be reunited with his parents and four sisters.
His parents and sisters came to the Netherlands at the invitation of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, in December 2005. Before that time the parents, the four sisters and Ashraf al- Hazouz lived in Libya. But after the doctor was arrested, life became impossible for them.
Source: Xinhua
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