Global health award for jailed Iranian docs

June 17, 2011 11:47

Two Iranian doctors, who are brothers, and are imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government have been awarded a global health prize -- the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.

The bbc.co.uk reports that Kamiar and Arash Alaei were arrested in June 2008 and accused of communicating with the US to unseat the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

One of the two brothers, released earlier this year, was able to accept the award in Washington. Kamiar Alaeia, 37, said they had never been involved in politics.

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