Bulgaria’s Justice Minister Anton Stankov said that there are grounds to expect more relaxed detention measures for the six Bulgarian medics, charged with intentionally infecting 393 Libyan children with the HIV virus, in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television. The six Bulgarians are. The medics were arrested in February 1999. On February 4, 2002 they were moved from the Judeida prison to a guarded house. Stankov said it was important to note that the case against the defendants is now being reconsidered and a new indictment is yet to be made and formulated. The Justice Minister is also Chairman of the Intergovernmental Commission on the case. The Justice Minister said that the fact that the People's Court in Tripoli is no longer involved with the case, after a decision from the last February 17 hearing on the case, and that the case will be dealt with by the local court in Benghazi, means that the most serious charges against the Bulgarians, conspiring against Libya, have been dropped and that the case is an ordinary criminal trial. He said that efforts from the Bulgarian side for a fair verdict are constantly being made.

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