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PHR Criticizes Iran for Trying AIDS Doctors on Secret Charges
The Iranian government's December 31 trial of Dr. Arash Alaei and Dr. Kamiar Alaei - Iranian brothers who are known worldwide for their work as HIV/AIDS physicians - denied fundamental requirements of due process...
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Iran Asked to Free AIDS Doctors Held for Six Months on Illegitimate Charges
(Cambridge, MA: December 22, 2008) — On the sixth-month anniversary of Iran's detention of Dr. Arash Alaei and Dr. Kamiar Alaei—Iranian brothers who are known worldwide as HIV/AIDS physicians—international NGOs, academic institutions, and medical leaders from across the globe are asking Iran to free them immediately.
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On World AIDS Day, PHR Urges Iran To Free Doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei
On December 1, 2008—the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day—Physicians for Human Rights and international medical leaders call on the Iranian government to release detained Iranian HIV/AIDS leaders Drs. Arash and Kamiar Alaei...
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Doctors, Medical Students Rally at Iranian UN Mission to Free Imprisoned Colleagues
PHR and a coalition of health and human rights groups held a silent vigil and press conference in front of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations (622 3rd Avenue) to call for the release of two imprisoned Iranian Physicians...
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Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei Detained in Iran
Physicians for Human Rights today urged the Iranian government to end the incommunicado detention of Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, two Iranian physicians who have reportedly been detained in Iran by Iranian authorities.

