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Editorial
Nature 430, 277 (15 July 2004) | doi:10.1038/430277a; Published online 14 July 2004
A true test of leadership
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Abstract
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, can demonstrate his aspirations to statesmanship by using the occasion of the XV International AIDS Conference to free health workers unjustly sentenced to death for infecting patients with HIV.
Valya Chervenyashka; Snezhana Dimitrova; Nasya Nenova; Valentina Siropulo; Kristiana Valcheva. These five Bulgarian nurses, along with Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a, a Palestinian doctor, were sentenced to death by firing squad by a Libyan court on 6 May.
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