Released on Bail - 27th May 2009 - 2 Comments »
Dr. Kamiar Alaei
Kamiar Alaei
UPDATE: (29 June 2009) Dr. Kamiar Alaei has been released on parole for 10 days and is required to report to prison after that time.
(27 May 2009) Dr. Kamiar Alaei is a doctoral candidate at the SUNY Albany School of Public Health in Albany, New York and was expected to resume his studies there in the fall of 2008. In 2007, he received a Master of Science degree in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Since 1998 he and his brother, Dr. Arash Alaei, have been carrying out HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs, particularly focused on harm reduction for injecting drug users.
He and his brother have been held in Evin prison in Tehran since June 2008. They were indicted in December 2008 on charges of communicating with an “enemy government” according to their attorney, Masoud Shafie.
Dr. Kamiar Alaei has been detained far longer than Iranian penal code allows. Articles 30-34 of the Code of Penal Procedure of the Islamic Republic of Iran allow for detentions but require that the investigating judge issue such detention orders for one month at a time and for no longer than four months.
Over 3,100 people from more than 85 countries have signed an online petition demanding their release, which can be viewed at http://www.IranFreeTheDocs.org.
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Mark
Mike Clark
A poet once said,”….they also serve who only sit and wait.” I read your story. I can only think and pray, but know that my thoughts and prayers are with you and for your safety, your courage and your beliefs.
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Probably communicating with the U.S. National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control would constitute communicating with an enemy government? And in the context it has to do with a government agency, not a political entity? Too bad that IRI’s leaders are so insular that they are attempting to quarantine Iran from the outside world and outside influences, some that might help Iran advance as a country (including information about diseases and health care). Of course they may be of the opinion that AIDs is the judgement of God and it only afflicts bad people, so why treat it?