Zdravstveni radnici uhapšeni su u februaru 1999, manje od godinu dana nakon svog dolaska u Libiju u cilju pružanja pomoći pri njezi bolesnika u bolnici Al-Fateh u Bengaziju.
The health workers were arrested in February 1999, less than a year after they arrived in Libya to help care for patients at the Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi.