She was interrogated alongside Ashraf and told the court they were beaten and that there was no interpreter. She did not confess to having illegal sexual relations with him. She, along with Vulcheva, are the only nurses who admitted knowing Ashraf by sight beforehand, but she said she had never spoken with him. She denied having attempted suicide out of guilt for what she had done. In court she stated that "I am not guilty on any of the counts. My conscience is clear." and "We had protection from no one, we had no doctor. We were alone there with those men who did everything they wanted to do". She said she attempted to retract her confession on 17 July 1999, but that a Colonel Juma came and threatened to renew the torture if she persisted. She is seeking to reappoint Vladimir Sheitanov as a replacement for defence attorneys Yalnyzov and Byzanti after the 2006 death sentence. Valya Chervenyashka She is from Byala Slatina. She was recruited by Expomed company. Her husband, Emil Uzunov, in a 2003 interview with Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) said that the defense lawyer Bizanti was one of the torturers who beat the six medics during the initial interrogations. Chervenyashka had to correct the story. "I suppose my husband was too nervous and over-reacted," she said. Her daughter Antoaneta Uzunova has commented on the case. "It's been terrible...The charges were absurd then, they remain absurd now," she said in 2005. "When I heard them being described as CIA agents...I knew what would happen," said Uzunova, 28. "Then we found out our loved ones had been tortured in a most cruel way. It's a nightmare." At another time, she said "Nurses from little towns in Bulgaria acting as agents of Mossad? It all sounds funny and absurd until you realize your mother could die for it." She is seeking to reappoint Vladimir Sheitanov as a replacement for defense attorneys Yalnyzov and Byzanti after the 2006 death sentence. In 2009, Cherveniashka co-wrote with the Bulgarian screenwriter Nikolay Yordanov а biographical book about her years in Libya. The book, titled Notes from Hell, was published in Bulgaria on 20 November 2009 and in South Africa in February 2010. It was published again as e-book in 2014 in Bulgarian and English and then in French as "Notes De L’enfer: Une historie vraie" in 2007. On November 2018, the English edition