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Iran doctors jailed over 'plot'
Two prominent Iranian Aids doctors have been jailed for a total of nine years for their part in an alleged coup plot.
Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamyar Alaei were accused of being "key elements" in a plan Iran said was backed by the CIA.
The prison sentences were imposed after a secret trial and have provoked strong protests from human rights groups.
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The two doctors had travelled widely outside Iran, including to the US, to take part in conferences on HIV/Aids.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says this may have meant they fell foul of a law banning Iranians from having relations with so-called "hostile states".
"We don't know why they were targeted," said Sarah Kolloch of US-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
"Most of their presentations were about innovative work in Iran on HIV prevention. If anything, Iran should have been excited that something positive like this was coming from Iran."
The Iranian government has repeatedly warned of attempts to stir up a "velvet revolution" by creating social unrest in the country to destabilise the government.
But no evidence has been produced to show that Arash and Kamyar Alaei were engaged in anything other than international collaboration to fight the spread of HIV and Aids, says our correspondent.
news.bbc.co.uk
Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamyar Alaei were accused of being "key elements" in a plan Iran said was backed by the CIA.
The prison sentences were imposed after a secret trial and have provoked strong protests from human rights groups.
...
The two doctors had travelled widely outside Iran, including to the US, to take part in conferences on HIV/Aids.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says this may have meant they fell foul of a law banning Iranians from having relations with so-called "hostile states".
"We don't know why they were targeted," said Sarah Kolloch of US-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
"Most of their presentations were about innovative work in Iran on HIV prevention. If anything, Iran should have been excited that something positive like this was coming from Iran."
The Iranian government has repeatedly warned of attempts to stir up a "velvet revolution" by creating social unrest in the country to destabilise the government.
But no evidence has been produced to show that Arash and Kamyar Alaei were engaged in anything other than international collaboration to fight the spread of HIV and Aids, says our correspondent.
news.bbc.co.uk