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From:	"John Piermont V. Montilla" [ profile ]
Subject:	Help Dr. Arash Alaei and his brother Dr. Kamiar Alaei are renownedHIV/AIDS physician
Sent:	Aug 10th, 2011 - 05:55:16

	Dear GYCA Friends, As many of you know, one of the Asia 21 Young Leaders is currently being held in Teheran’s Evin Prison. Dr. Arash Alaei and his brother Dr. Kamiar Alaei are renowned HIV/AIDS physicians who were arrested in June 2008 and convicted in January 2009 on charges of communicating with an enemy government because they had traveled to international AIDS and public health conferences and worked with international health workers to help find solutions to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In late 2010, Kamiar was released following 870 days in prison in Iran. Arash was sentenced to six years in prison and today remains behind bars after three long years. People from around the world are coming together to push for Arash’es release, and we Aisia Society Fellows are encouraged by our President Jamie Metzl to reach out to our networks and freinds on his behalf to urge you all to consider taking the following actions: 1. If you have not already done so, please sign the electronic petition at http://iranfreethedocs.org/petition/ 2. Please distribute the petition to your friends and encourage them to sign it. 3. Please consider sending a letter to the Iranian embassy in your country referencing your connection to Arash as part of the Asia 21 community and adapting some of the language from the petition as you see fit. Warmest regards to you all, John Piermont Montilla GYCA Philippines Asia 21 Young Leaders Fellow Phil21 Class of 2011 http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gangs-who-say- they-are-bad http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/to-be-a-friend -a-salt-visit

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