Tripoli’s regional court has rejected a court action for slander lodged by Libyan officer Selim Juma against six Bulgarian medics.
The medics accused him of torture. Three years ago, Juma signed confessions that he had tortured the Bulgarians to confess deliberate HIV infection of more than 400 children in Benghazi.
Later he retracted this statement in a Benghazi courtroom, saying he himself had been tortured into signing.
Juma’s claim was for five million Libyan dinars, Darik Radio informed.
Juma is a former officer at a dog training centre in Tripoli, according to Focus news agency.
The six Bulgarian medics were arrested in 1999 and sentenced to death in 2004. The verdicts were confirmed in 2006 and 2007. On July 17 2007 Libya’s supreme judicial council commuted the death sentences to life imprisonment.
