“Iranian HIV doctor Arash Alaei has been released from jail in Tehran after spending more than three years behind bars for allegedly conspiring against the regime, his U.S.-based brother said Monday,” Agence France-Presse reports (Sheridan, 8/29).

Arash Alaei and his brother, Kamiar Alaei, who is also a physician, were arrested in 2008 and “charged with ‘communication with an enemy government’ and for trying to ‘overthrow the government,’ according to Kamiar,” CNN notes. “Kamiar Alaei served most of a three-year sentence and was released in October 2010,” the news agency writes (8/29). The brothers, “regarded as pioneers of AIDS treatment in Iran,” are known for their efforts to treat people who use injecting drugs and prisoners, according to AFP (8/29).