Bulgaria: The Nurses | European Journal

Libya’s National Transitional Council includes a number of former functionaries of the Muammar Gadhafi regime. One is Mustafa Abdel Jalil Gadhafi’s former minister of justice, the man who signed the death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses.The five were used as the regime’s scapegoats when 400 children became infected with HIV at a clinic in Benghazi. After a series of show trials, torture and sentencing, the nurses were eventually released in a deal with the West.