Libya Tortured “HIV Medics”
Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were imprisoned by Libya for eight years on charges that they had infected more than 400 children with AIDS. They were convicted in a Libyan court based on their "confessions". The son of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has admitted that those confessions were obtained by torture. Like strapping electrodes to the victim's genitals.
The Gaddafi regime in Libya has admitted torturing confessions from five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV.
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Muammar Gaddafi's son, said the medics, who were freed last month after an eight year ordeal, were subjected to electric shocks.
State officials also made threats against the detainees families, he said.
Col Gaddafi's son was responding to claims by the doctor, Ashraf al-Hazouz, that Libyan authorities used drugs and attached electrodes to his feet and genitals in a bid to extract a confession.
He added the authorities set dogs on the prisoners, tied him to a bar and spun him repeatedly, like a chicken on a rotisserie.
That would be what real torture looks like.
World news | Gaius Thursday, 9 August , 2007
By Chris, Friday, 10 August , 2007 @ 4:38 am
Paging Andrew Sullivan…..