Iran releases jailed HIV/AIDS doctor, family says
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28-Aug-2011 (one comment)

(CNN) -- Arash Alaei, a pioneering HIV and AIDS doctor, has been released from an Iranian prison, his family said Sunday.

Both he and his brother, Kamiar Alaei, who is also a doctor, were arrested in 2008. They were charged with "communication with an enemy government" and for trying to "overthrow the government," according to Kamiar.

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He is one of the nicest guys in Iran! I mentioned ( & thought about) him in a post last nite......now he is out of jail! Yeah!

He is in Maziar Bahari's documentary, Mohammad and Matchmaker:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe0D_sknTfQ

He is innocent! He went to jail for no reason!