Jailed Bulgarians were tortured
From Times Wire Reports
Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s son has acknowledged that several Bulgarian medical workers jailed nearly nine years on charges of infecting children with HIV were tortured in captivity.
“Yes, they were tortured by electricity and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted,” Seif Islam Kadafi said in an interview with the Arab satellite television station Al Jazeera.
He made no apology in the broadcast excerpts and maintained that some of the allegations against Libya were lies.
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