The amfAR statement supporting the release of Kamiar and Arash Alaei mentions Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman’s remarks during her presentation at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman is chair of the steering committee for amfAR’s TREAT Asia initiative, who established the Infectious Diseases Unit at the University of Malaya Medical Centre. Here is the full text of what Dr. Kamarulzaman said in support of the Alaei brothers.

At this point I would like to take a minute of my presentation to appeal to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Arash and Kamiar Alaei from custody and the charges that have been brought upon them.

I have met the brothers on many occasions and had the opportunity to visit your beautiful country as a Faculty member of the HIV/TB training course for the region that they organized.

It was through the inspiration that was gained by the visit to your country that the Malaysian Prison Department has implemented opiate substitution therapy in the Malaysian prison system.

As a fellow Muslim I appeal to the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the name of Allah the Most Merciful and Compassionate to release these brothers immediately.