Chief Prosecutor: Bulgarian Medics to Testify in Libyan Torturers Probe
Politics | July 24, 2007, TuesdayThe five Bulgarian nurses, doctor Zdravko Georgiev and his Palestinian colleague Ashraf are to be interrogated in the Libyan torturers probe in a couple of days, Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev said Tuesday.
"I have not expected such a fast return," Velchev said after the airplane carrying the Bulgarian medics landed at Sofia Airport.
Sofia city prosecutor's office made it clear that it will proceed with the lawsuit against the Libyan officers, who tortured five Bulgarian nurses into making confessions in a HIV trial.
The lawsuit was Bulgaria's response to the travesty of justice in Libya, but unfortunately experts comment that it comes too late and has weak chances of success.
Nine Libyan security officers and a doctor were charged and later acquitted of torturing the nurses to extract confessions that they deliberately infected more than 400 children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital.
The nurses have complained of severe torture during police interrogation, saying they were jolted with electricity, beaten with sticks and repeatedly jumped on while strapped to their beds. Two of the women said they were raped.
"I have not expected such a fast return," Velchev said after the airplane carrying the Bulgarian medics landed at Sofia Airport.
Sofia city prosecutor's office made it clear that it will proceed with the lawsuit against the Libyan officers, who tortured five Bulgarian nurses into making confessions in a HIV trial.
The lawsuit was Bulgaria's response to the travesty of justice in Libya, but unfortunately experts comment that it comes too late and has weak chances of success.
Nine Libyan security officers and a doctor were charged and later acquitted of torturing the nurses to extract confessions that they deliberately infected more than 400 children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital.
The nurses have complained of severe torture during police interrogation, saying they were jolted with electricity, beaten with sticks and repeatedly jumped on while strapped to their beds. Two of the women said they were raped.
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