I den islamiske mønsterstat Iran behandler man HIV – ved at henrette behandlerne.
New Scientist: Iranian HIV pioneers face death penalty
It is hard to imagine who could possibly wish ill to the brothers Kamiar and Arash Alaei. The Iranian doctors pioneered HIV/AIDS treatment in Iran, and even won religious approval for helping heroin addicts. But on Tuesday authorities in Tehran announced that four unnamed Iranians were charged with “communications with an enemy government” to “launch a velvet (sic) overthrow of the Iranian government”. Human rights campaigners have been informed that the four include the Alaei brothers. The charges carry the death penalty. How has this terrible prospect come to pass?
Their crime, says Joe Amon of Human Rights Watch, seems to be extensive contact with the US. This is hardly surprising. Kamiar holds master’s degrees in public and international health from Harvard, and was just finishing a doctorate at the State University of New York at Albany. They both spoke at leading scientific meetings in the US, and took part in the first formal professional exchanges between Iran and the US since the 1980s, with public health experts in 2006.
