Libya, Bulgaria: Torture of the Tripoli Six

The Balkan Yankee awaits the world's reaction to Libya's acknowledgment of torture of the recently-released Bulgarian medics.

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  • Jose Manuel Cano Sanchez

    The torture exists inside Bulgaria, it is realized by the police and the courts against the women who are divorced and marry in another country with a foreigner. If she have a son or a daughter with her ex-husband, she can´t To take them with her.

    The court detrmines that the mother returns to Bulgaria if she wants to be with her children, without importing the family that she has constructed in other country.

    The police take the passports from the children assuring remain in Bulgaria and They threaten the judges saying they are going to lose his or her employment if they allow to the children to go out of the country.

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