The new package of sanctions follows the previous seven adopted earlier by the EU Council. In general, sanctions were applied to 216 individuals and 37 legal entities.
The European Union has imposed sanctions against five individuals and two organizations responsible for human rights violations in Iran. This is reported by the Council of the EU.
The new package of sanctions follows the previous seven adopted earlier by the EU Council
- Iranian Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) Tehran Police Unit Commander
- a man associated with the “Marj Arvin case”, a lawyer who ended up in prison because of his human rights work and subsequently died.
- a representative of the Iranian police and secretary of the Iranian Supreme Cyberspace Council (SCC), the body responsible for repression in cyberspace.
Sanctions have also been imposed on the IRGC Foundation, the body responsible for managing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ investments and funneling money into the regime’s brutal crackdown, and the Basij Student Organization (SBO), which acts as a violent army on university campuses where students staged protests in the fall of 2022. and later became victims of repression and serious human rights violations such as abduction and torture.
In general, sanctions were applied to 216 individuals and 37 legal entities. Restrictive measures include an asset freeze, a ban on entry into the EU and a ban on providing funds to those on the sanctioned list. In addition, there is a ban on the export to Iran of equipment that can be used for internal repression and equipment for monitoring telecommunications.
The EU called on Iran to end the practice of imposing and executing the death penalty on protesters, abolish existing death sentences, ensure due process for all detainees, and end the practice of detaining foreign civilians for political gain.
Recall that the UK, US and EU have imposed new sanctions against the Iranian regime.
