The Egyptian Coalition Against the Death Penalty expressed its optimism that Supreme Council of the Judiciary in the Libyan Jamahiriya giving up on its sentence to death execute five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor (Ashraf Hagoj) convicted in the case of child AIDS and replaced by life imprisonment.
This comes after waiver families of the children AIDS claim with the execution defendants after they receive compensation of $ 1 million per family. Maat for Judicial and Constitutional Studies (coordinator of Egyptian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, see that the court's giving up the judgment is a step forward towards the abolition of death penalty from Arab legislations , in particular the court has had more than one option, either to accept reconciliation or support death penalty or modified.
Hence, the Egyptian Coalition Against the Death Penalty demands Libyan judiciary to reconsider the death sentences in other cases, including the case of the Egyptians sentenced to death and the expected implementation of the death penalty against some of them in the coming days.
The Coalition appeals to the Egyptian and Arabic judiciary to follow Libyan judiciary's acceptance of the amends in that case, and work to limit the application of the death penalty in order to be abolished.
The coalition calls on the Egyptian and Arab judiciary to follow the course of the Libyan judiciary by accepting blood money in that case, and to work to limit the application of the death penalty until it is abolished.

The alliance coordinator,
Maat for juridical and constitutional studies