Djuma Misheri, one of the cruelest torturers of the Bulgarian nurses, according to the women's testimony, is ready to come to Bulgaria to defend his actions in the trial against him and ten more men.

"If I have to testify before the courts in Bulgaria I will come to defend myself," Misheri said. "I am innocent and I am not worried of being arrested if I step in Bulgaria or any other EU country."

Bulgarian prosecutors started an investigation in the way confessions have been extracted by the five women, as they claimed that they had been beaten, tortured and raped into confessing. Investigators have many materials on the case including news reports, the nurses' testimony, photos of their scars and other sources.

As an answer to that investigation, the Libyan officers accused the nurses of slander and the five are now defendants in a second trial apart from the appeal of their death sentences. Should they be acquitted in the slander trial, the HIV-spreading charges against them should be dropped as the prosecutors' case is built mainly on the confessions. The court just adjourned the slander hearing until March 25 to give the defense time to look over the papers.

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