HIV medics story will be made into film

Plans are in the works to make a film about the sex Bulgarian medics who were jailed in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV. The five nurses and Palestinian-born doctor served eight years of their life sentences and always maintained they were innocence.

It was only last month they were released from prison after Libya and the EU spent years negotiating the issue. The film will also focus on the children infected with HIV.
The medical professionals said they were tortured into confessing to deliberately infecting hundreds in 1998. They were freed into Bulgarian custody in July and were immediately pardoned.

The movie will be made by Sixth Sense Procuctions, the same company that was involved with the Oscar-nominated genocide drama Hotel Rwanda. Dr Zdravko Georgiev, husband of one of the nurses said,“The world will see the truth. The world must see the truth. Such a case doesn’t happen every day,”

President of production for the company, Sam Feuer, said the story of The Benghazi Six would be “inspirational”. Speaking to Reuters, he said, “The world needs to learn about this injustice. It’s not just a Bulgarian story, it’s a human story that the world will relate to and learn from.”

Feuer also said that the company is approaching some Hollywood stars. He also added that the company is in talks with Ann Peacock who wrote the screenplay for The Chronicles of Narnia.

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