EU Sanctions against Iran, for Human Rights violation

The EU announced on 12 April 2021 for adding ( 8 Persons & 3 entities ) to sanction list, due to violations of Human Rights against peaceful protest in Iran ( November 2019 )

Persons :

Gholamreza Soleimani : Head of the Basij Organisation

Hossein Salami : Commander in Chief of the IRGC

Hassan Karami : Commander of the Special Units of the Iranian police force.

Mohammad Pakpour : Commander in Chief of the IRGC Ground Forces

Hossein Ashtari : Commander in Chief of the Iranian police force

Gholamreza Ziaei : Director of Evin Prison, was the director of Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj

Hassan Shahvarpour : Commander of the IRGC in Khuzestan

Leyla Vaseghi : Governor of Shahr-e Qods and Head of the City Security Council

Entities

Evin Prison : A detention centre where political prisoners have been held and severe human rights abuses, including torture, have repeatedly taken place over the past years and decades

Fashafouyeh Prison : A detention centre designated originally to detain offenders of drug-related crimes, recently also holding political prisoners and, in some cases, forcing them to share cells with drug addicts.

Rajaee Shahr Prison : A Facility where deprivation of human rights, including severe physical and psychological torture of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience as well as mass executions without fair trial, ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979