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Iran: Release Detained HIV/AIDS Experts
Arrested Physicians Have Not Been Charged, Whereabouts Unknown Iranian authorities should immediately release or charge two physicians who are internationally recognized for their work on HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch said today. The men, Arash and Kamyar Alaei, who are brothers, were detained without charge by Iranian security forces in late June, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 21-Jul-2008 07:00

UN: Open AIDS Meeting to All
General Assembly Should Reverse Ban on Human Rights and Sexual Health Groups The United Nations General Assembly should reverse its decision to exclude three human rights and sexual health nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from its June 10 high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, a coalition of human rights groups and international AIDS organizations said today.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 05-Jun-2008 07:00

Egypt: 117 NGOs Slam HIV-Based Arrests and Trials
Doctors Helping Police Denounced for Breaching Medical Ethics, Human Rights As five more men face trial in Cairo on April 9 in a widening and dangerous police crackdown on people living with HIV/AIDS, 117 organizations worldwide working in the fields of health and human rights condemned the crackdown and the participation of medical personnel.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 07-Apr-2008 07:00

UN: Action Needed Against Unproven HIV/AIDS Treatments
The United Nations and its member states are failing to address serious threats to life and health posed by the promotion of unproven AIDS ?cures? and by counterfeit antiretroviral drugs, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 28-Feb-2008 06:00

Egypt: Spreading Crackdown on HIV Endangers Public Health
Rights Violations Drive Those in Need Underground Cairo police arrested four more men suspected of having HIV, signaling a wider crackdown that endangers public health and violates basic human rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today in a joint statement.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 15-Feb-2008 06:00

Egypt: Stop Criminalizing HIV
HIV-Motivated Arrests and Convictions Threaten Justice and Public Health A series of arrests in Cairo sparked by one man?s admission to police that he was HIV-positive endangers public health as well as human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 05-Feb-2008 06:00

Libya: Health Workers Released, but Serious Abuses Remain
The Libyan government?s release of six foreign healthcare workers brings a welcome end to a long miscarriage of justice, but human rights abuses in the country remain a deep concern, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source : Human Rights Watch | 24-Jul-2007 07:00