powers vested in him, President Parvanov pardons the medics," foreign minister Ivailo Kalfin said after welcoming the medics back. 28 July 2007: Libyan officials said they had sent a memo to the Arab League calling for action against Sofia – and a protest to the EU – because Bulgaria's decision to pardon the medics has angered Tripoli. The BBC reported that the Libyan authorities had expected the freed medics to serve their life terms in Bulgarian jails, Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi said, adding that the deal to free the medics had involved money put up by the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Qatar, while France had promised to provide equipment for the Benghazi hospital, where the infections had taken place – and training for Libyan medical staff over five years. 10 August 2007, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the leader of Libya, admitted that the confessions were extracted through torture with electric shocks and threats targeted at the medic's families, and confirmed that some of the children had been infected with HIV before the medics arrived in Libya. He said that the guilty verdict of the Libyan courts had been based on "conflicting reports", and said that "There is negligence, there is a disaster that took place, there is a tragedy, but it was not deliberate." 24 February 2011, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Libya's newly resigned Minister of Justice, told Al Jazeera that the responsibility for the HIV infection lay totally with Muammar Gaddafi's regime. However Mustafa Abdul Jalil, who became head of the Libyan NTC and then Libyan head of state after the very public murder of Muammar Gadaafi, was one of the judges who sentenced the nurses to death. See also Tuskegee syphilis experiment J. Marion Sims Peter Buxtun Contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom References External links Scans of November 1998 issue 78 of banned La magazine AIDS in our children- Who is responsible? Cover p.1 p.2 p.3 p.4 p.5 p.6 p.7 p.8 p.9 p.10 p.11 p.12 p.13 p.14 p.15 p.16 The text of the judgment and ruling issued on 19 December 2006 the Court of Appeal in Benghazi with list of victims Trials in Libya Benghazi Anti-Bulgarian sentiment Libya Libya Law of Libya 1999 in Libya Foreign relations of Libya Foreign relations of Bulgaria Human rights abuses in Libya Health in Libya Bulgaria–France relations Bulgarian people imprisoned abroad Nursing ethics History of nursing