ALLEGED TORTURERS OF MEDICS IN LIBYA WILL BE SUED, DAILY REPORTS

Politics | May 26, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

Libya will sue in June the six agents of the secret services who allegedly tortured the Bulgarian medics in Libya, charged with intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV, Bulgaria’s daily Trud reported, quoting sources from Tripoli. Officials from Libya’s Security Services confessed that they had tortured the Bulgarian medics in Libya during the first months of their arrest, Bulgaria’s Trud daily reported in mid-April quoting sources close to foundation “Qaddafi.” Five Bulgarian nurses and one doctor are charged with intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV. The “Qaddafi” foundation, managed by Seif al-Islam, son of the Libyan leader Qaddafi, observes the case of the Bulgarians. Trud daily also reported that in the end of January about twenty of the alleged torturers were arrested. On June 2, 2001 the nurses Nasya Nenova and Kristiyana Vulcheva denied their written confessions, but stated that they had to do that after terrible, “medieval” tortures. In January this year Kristiyana Vulcheva and her husband Zdravko Georgieva were questioned in connection with the tortures after foundation “Qaddafi” intervened. On February 17 the People's Court of Libya announced there was insufficient evidence to raise a charge against the Bulgarians for conspiracy against the Libyan State and transferred the case to a civil court. The six Bulgarian medics were detained in February 1999. A year later, they were put on trial together with a Palestinian doctor and nine Libyan ones. Shortly before the last hearing on the case on February 17, the medics were moved from jail to a house where they have been living since then.
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