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Bulgaria eyes Libya torture charges
A Bulgarian prosecutor is to file charges against 11 Libyan police
officers for allegedly torturing five Bulgarian nurses who have been
sentenced to death in Libya after being found guilty of deliberately
infecting over 400 children with HIV.
Nikolay Kokinov said: "They will be accused of extracting confessions
under duress.
"We believe there is enough evidence proving a crime."
The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to
death by firing squad in December, 2006 after a court in Tripoli found
them guilty of infecting the children at a Libyan hospital.
The verdicts against the six, who have already spent eight years in a
Libyan prison, were handed down on the basis of confessions by two of
the nurses.
But the nurses recanted their confessions during the trial, saying they
had been made under duress.
They maintain their innocence and international health experts have
claimed the aids virus spread because of poor hygiene in the hospital
which happened before the nurses started working there.
'Obscenity'
Othman al-Bizanti, the nurses' Libyan lawyer, told AFP news agency on
Monday that his clients have also been accused of slandering the police
and are to face further questioning on February 11.
Boris Velchev, Bulgaria's chief prosecutor, told journalists on Tuesday
that the new slander charges were "an obscenity".
He said: "The evidence that we have points out that the nurses were
indeed tortured. Nobody in Bulgaria has any doubts about that."
Trayan Markovski, the coordinator of the Bulgarian defence team, called
the slander charges "the latest psychological torture against our
innocently condemned nurses".
Dimitar Tsanchev, a foreign ministry spokesman, said on Bulgarian
national radio that he feared the new charges would "complicate the
grave psychological state of the nurses".
Zdravko Georgiev, a Bulgarian doctor and the husband of one of the
nurses, told national radio on Tuesday: "That is the next dreadful slap
in the face we were given. These beasts, our torturers, are the ones who
have slandered the girls."
Georgiev was detained with the others but a Tripoli court acquitted him
in May 2004 as he had already served out the four-year sentence he
received. He has not been allowed to leave Libya.
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