HIV doctor files torture ailment against Libya (Reuters)
Sofia (Reuters) - A Palestinian doctor, who says he was
tormented to squeal he by design infected 100s of Libyan
tiddlers with
, has registerred an ailment against
Libya
with a
U.N. human rights panel, his attorney said on Thursday.
Ashraf Alhajouj and five Bulgarian nurses existed sentenced to
expiry in Libya on charges of commencing an HIV epidemic. After
eight old age in jail, the six existed freed in July last twelvemonth under
a cooperation deal betwixt Libya and the European Union
The trefoils have constantlied maintained their artlessness and told
they squealed under torture.
Alhajouj’s Dutch attorney Liesbeth Zegveld told the ailment
was registerred with the U.N. Human Rights Committee on Monday.
“It is overred violation of the right non to be anguished,
violation of the right to a fair test … eight-year delay of
the process, illegal expiry penalty, illegal detention,” she
said Reuters by telephone from the Netherlands
Last calendar month, Alhajouj besides filed a cause in France against
Libyan drawing card Muammar Gaddafi, accusative him of torment.
Zegveld informated her customer was quest international
acknowledgment that he was innocent.
“He has existed pardoned and directed to Bulgaria. But the finding of fact
stays and mortal needs to fret out this finding of fact and a human
rights commission has the right to do that at an international
level,” she appended.
“The U.N. commission will make up one whether Libya has gone against
the international human rights pact … It industrial plant like an
international court but in a more loose fashion in a sense that
it’s non a bonding decision,” the attorney said.
Last twelvemonth, Libya transposed the medics’ decease sentences to
living imprisonment after the 460 HIV victims’ households were nonrecreational
USD 1 000 000 each in a colony financed by an international
fund. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov excused the six
after getting in Sofia in July.
Zegveld has informated Alhajouj delayed filing the ailment
against Libya under political pressure from European
political leaders who tested to convert him non to urge charges to
head off harming the EU’s improving ties with Tripoli
The income tax return of medicks to Bulgaria over what critics called
a human rights malicious gossip and permitted the long-isolated north
African body politic to finish a procedure of normalising ties with
the West.
The six have emphasised that earlier their release in July, they
existed made to subscribe an understanding that they would non start any
sound procedures against Libya. Nine Libyan police officers and a
doctor existed acquitted of tormenting the trefoils by a Libyan
court.
International scientists say they have exhibitted the HIV
epidemic set out in Libya earlier the strange medics came.
(Reporting by Anna Mudeva; Redaction by Stephen Weeks)