Burgas Prison: Inmate Killed in Altercation
Two prisoners got into a fight, and one of them died after the fight
A Bulgarian medic who has been kept in a Libyan prison for more than two months has been released, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister revealed Friaday.
Dr. Atanas Krastev has been arrested for espionage and subversion against the Libyan authorities. The news about his arrest, however, never emerged before the Minister's announcement.
Krastev was arrested on March 29 after the local police authorities found pictures on his PC allegedly discrediting Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The accusations against him have not been withdrawn.
Eleven years ago, six Bulgarian medics were arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in Libya on the basis of the false accusation that they had infected Libyan children with AIDS on purpose.
The travesty trial of the Bulgarian medics in Libya was a clear act of blackmail from the very beginning. In 2007, Bulgaria completely wrote off Libya's debt to facilitate negotiations and obtain the release from jail of the six Bulgarian medics.
Tripoli protested against the pardoning of the Bulgarian medics, claiming it breaches the prisoner transfer agreement signed in 1984, based on which the medics were repatriated.
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