Gadhafi's son: Bulgarian medics tortured

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Source: Associated Press

Gadhafi's son: Bulgarian medics tortured

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TRIPOLI, Libya - The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
has acknowledged that the Bulgarian medical workers who were
jailed on charges of infecting children with HIV were tortured
during captivity, Al-Jazeera TV said on its Web site Thursday.

The doctor and five nurses were released last month and have
maintained that their confessions were extracted through torture.

"Yes, they were tortured by electricity and they were threatened
that their family members would be targeted," Seif al-Islam
Gadhafi was quoted as saying by the Arab broadcaster.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/ap_on_re_mi_ea/libya_bulgarian_medics

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Source: Al Jazeera

Libya acknowledges medics' torture

Five foreign medics and a Palestinian medical doctor had been
tortured while in detention, a son of Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi has told Al Jazeera.

Saif al-Islam, however, denied that his country would face legal
action for that.

In an interview on Wednesday, Saif al-Islam said: "Yes, they
were tortured by electricity and they were threatened that their
family members would be targeted. But a lot of what the
Palestinian doctor has claimed are merely lies."

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Ashraf Alhajouj, the doctor, plans to file a complaint against
Libya before a UN human rights panel, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

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Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/71C92F03-1444-49C4-AB9E-70D195B6A659.htm