After three years of investigation, in February 2002, a special court in Tripoli charged them all with deliberately infecting 393 Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS, allegedly as part of a conspiracy to damage the country's security.
Posle trogodišnje istrage, u februaru 2002, specijalni sud u Tripoliju optužio je sve njih za namerno zaražavanje 393 libijske dece virusom koji izaziva AIDS, navodno u sklopu zavere da se ugrozi bezbednost zemlje.