Russian Tycoon's Son Dies in Mysterious Car Accident

The son of Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev, died in a mysterious car accident says his family. Mikhail Gutseriyev who formerly headed the oil firm Russneft, left the company under government pressure to sell it to a Kremlin backed oligarch. The Russian goverment has accused him of tax evasion, and illegal business activities. In regards to selling the firm he accused the government of " unprecedented bullying". Later he rescinded that statement and said he was glad to sell it. The Russian newspaper Kommersant asked Moscow authorities about the crash but they had no records of a crash occurring.- Al Jazeera

It appears another mysterious accident faced a person who did not have a strong relationship with Putin's Kremlin. Russia seems to have quite a history of mysterious accidents in regards to people who did not agree with goverment policies, especially in Putin's Russia.

Accused Nurses in Libya were Tortured

Five Bulgarian nurse and a Palestinian doctor, who were convicted of infecting children with AIDS, were tortured under Libyan custody according to Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The nurses were supposed to face the death penalty but had their sentence commuted to life in prison. Due to international pressure the Libyan government sent them back to Bulgaria to finish out their sentences there. The nurses said that Libya extracted their confessions under torture and that they were innocent of any crime.- Jurist Law The Bulgarian government subsequently pardoned them.

Seif al-Islam said that there confessions were not done in a scientific or professional manner and that the case "amounted to blackmail vis-a-vis the Europeans." He also said it was an immoral game where the Europeans set the rules and use this card to advance their own interests back home- Al Jazeera

In an interview with Al -Jazeera he supported their claims of innocents, but the courts relied on documents that implicated their guilt.