Maintaining their innocence, the Bulgarian nurses have insisted that their confessions were extorted by torture, including beatings with barbed wire, rape, electrical shocks and dog attacks.
Tvrdeći da su nedužne, bugarske medicinske sestre tvrdile su da su im priznanja izvučena mučenjem – prebijanjem bodljikavom žicom, silovanjem, elektrošokovima i napadima pasa.