TRIAL OF BULGARIAN MEDICS POSTPONED

Business | May 14, 2001, Monday // 00:00

The People`s Court of Libya postponed until June 2 the trial of the six Bulgarian medics charged with deliberately infecting hundred of Libyan children with the HIV virus. The Court allowed medical experts to examine them and give them treatment if necessary. International visits are allowed as well but the court refused to change the measure of restraint. For the first time media photographers and television cameramen were allowed in the courtroom. The accused said that during the first three months in custody they had been tortured and subjected to continuous mental cruelty, describing the tortures as `medieval ones` and `with electricity`.

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