HIV doctor files torture ill against Libya (Reuters)
Bulgarian capital (Reuters) - A Palestinian doctor, who says he was
anguished to squeal he on purpose infected one Cs of Libyan
kids with
, has registerred an ill 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 starting out 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 medicks have everred maintained their ingenuousness 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 decease penalty, illegal detention,” she
said Reuters by telephone from the Netherlands
Last calendar month, Alhajouj too filed a case in France against
Libyan drawing card Muammar Gaddafi, accusatory him of torment.
Zegveld stated her customer was quest international
acknowledgement that he was innocent.
“He has existed pardoned and directed to Bulgaria. But the finding of fact
stays and soul needs to rub out this finding of fact and a human
rights commission has the right to do that at an international
level,” she supplied.
“The U.N. commission will make up one whether Libya has broken
the international human rights pact … It plant like an
international court but in a more loose way in a sense that
it’s non a sticking decision,” the attorney said.
Last twelvemonth, Libya transposed the medics’ decease sentences to
living imprisonment after the 460 HIV victims’ menages were nonrecreational
USD 1 000 000 each in a colony financed by an international
fund. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov excused the six
after coming in Sofia in July.
Zegveld has expressed Alhajouj delayed filing the ill
against Libya under political pressure from European
politicos who well to win over him non to exhort charges to
avert harming the EU’s improving ties with Tripoli
The income tax return of trefoils to Bulgaria over what critics called
a human rights malicious gossip and permitted the long-isolated north
African state to finish a procedure of normalising ties with
the West.
The six have informated that earlier their release in July, they
existed made to subscribe an understanding that they would non start any
effectual procedures against Libya. Nine Libyan police officers and a
doctor existed acquitted of tormenting the medicks by a Libyan
court.
International scientists say they have demoed the HIV
epidemic commenced in Libya earlier the strange medics came.
(Reporting by Anna Mudeva; Redaction by Stephen Weeks)