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Woerden: A Palestinian doctor on Sunday called for an investigation into how he and five Bulgarian nurses were tortured to confess that they deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV.
"I ask the Libyan people to open such a file to help us clear our name," doctor Ashraf Alhajouj told reporters in Woerden, near Amsterdam.
Alhajouj and the nurses were freed on July 24 after more than eight years in jail, under a cooperation deal between Libya and the European Union.
"It is not the end now that we are free. We must clear our name of this tragedy. We are as much victims as the children," the 38-year-old doctor said.
The six, who were sentenced to death on two occasions, have maintained their innocence and said they confessed under torture.
Alhajouj, who was born in Egypt but grew up in Libya, said he will never go back to Libya. "It has destroyed my past, my present and my future."
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