New President Of Hungary Ader Asked To Decide On Gereb's Future
- 11 May 2012 9:00 AM
The Administration and Justice Ministry has postponed transferring gynaecologist Agnes Gereb to jail, pending a decision by President-elect Janos Ader. Gereb had been banned from pursuing her profession and has been living under house arrest. A verdict ordered Gereb to begin serving her time in prison but the ministry said this will now await the President’s decision on Gereb's application for clemency.
Professor Lesley Page, president of Britain’s Royal College of Midwives, had sent a letter to Ader in late April asking him to grant amnesty to Gereb, the movement Justice for Agnes Gereb announced last week.
A total of 700 Hungarian physicians have supported Gereb's application for mercy. The previous president Pal Schmitt rejected her application.
Gereb was sentenced to a two-year prison term in February by the Budapest Court of Appeals and banned for ten years from pursuing her profession, because of one stillbirth and one other birth she had assisted where the baby died six months later.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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