The five Bulgarian medics and the Palestinian doctor arrive in Sofia in July 2007, after spending eight years in Libyan jail. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
The five Bulgarian medics and the Palestinian doctor, who were held in a Libyan jail will ask Libya to pay them EUR millions as compensations.
The news was announced Monday by the medics' Dutch lawyer, cited by the Bulgarian information agency, BGNES.
The compensations' demand is based on their unjust eight-year detention behind bars over accusations they have infected Libyan children with AIDS.
In a letter to the Libya's leader, Moammar Qaddafi, the lawyer asks for compensations for the incurred trauma due to the prolonged execution threat and their continuing suffering today.
The medics were sentenced to dead in Libya in 1999 for allegedly infecting 438 Libyan children with AIDS, 56 of whom later died. They were freed in July of 2007, and returned back to Bulgaria on board of a French airplane, accompanied by the ex-wife of the French President, Nikolas Sarkozy - Cecilia.